How can you connect the poem "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" to the Holocaust?
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
Against a white stone...
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly 'way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
Kiss the world goodbye.
Seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here, In the ghetto.
Written by Pavel Friedman 4.6.1942
I think it has to do with living in poverty and loving it.
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There wasn't really any beautiful thing there but he found a court yard filled with a small patch of flowers. Everything prefered dieing instead of living. it was much refered to as the genocide. It was also refered to as the ghetto.
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Probably this boy was looking at this pretty butterfly and was thinking that he was never going to see that butterfly any more. He was thinking that because he thought he was going to die.
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I think this poem relates to the Holocaust because, something as sweet and pretty as a butterfly is trapped in this ghetto. I think that the butterfly is going to die in there because it has been there for seven weeks already. Also i think the reason they put the line "i went away I'm sure because it wished to
ReplyDeleteKiss the world goodbye" because he is going to die.
The ghetto relates to the concentration camp. That person that lives in the ghetto relates to the holocaust people. It's depressing for both sides. You're trapped in there and life isn't so great. Things could change very quickly.
ReplyDeleteThe ghetto was probably a concentration camp he was in. The butterfly was the last one he would see because he would die there soon. He wouldnt be the only one though. The butterfly flew away because it didnt want to be around all of the death there. He must have been happy to see the butterfly before dying.
ReplyDeleteI Never Saw Another Butterfly relates to the Holocaust because during the this time, people didn't get the chance to see beautiful things like a butterfly. Butterflies are a symbol of happiness, joy, and peace, so it brightened up the ones who were suffering a little joy. They were being tortured and there was really nothing for them to be happy about, so that one small butterfly went a long way. They knew they were eventually going to die so I bet they smiled for the first time since being captured. They truley after that never saw another butterfly in a horrible place like that.
ReplyDeleteHe was like a butterfly in the ghetto. Him in the Holocaust. He didn't belong there, as neither did the butterfly. He saw trees in between the Holocaust houses and that was happiness for him.
ReplyDeleteThe concentration camp relates to this poem. I think that because the people act like seeing a butterfly is the end of the world. They think this because the are locked up in a camp. So, when the see something they know the won't see in a long time they appriciate that. That's what i think.
ReplyDeleteI think this poem relates to the Holocaust because, something as sweet and pretty as a butterfly is trapped in this ghetto. This boy was probably feeling depressed that he will never be able to fly free like the butterfly. He's is trapped inside the concentration camp & he most likey won't ever see another butterfly.
ReplyDeleteI think this poen relates to the holocaust because The ghetto represented a concentration camp. The butterfly represented Joy and freedom. No one in the holocaust got to see anything as beautiful as a butterfly ever again. I think that in the end The butterfly was gone because the Joy and freedom were gone too.
ReplyDeleteThere is no nature in Death Camps to comfort them or give them the hope that they might need to get out alive. There were no little animals running around happily. No flowers to blow in the wind to set off a beautiful fragrance that also might comfort them in the hairiest of situations. It was the last time they would see something as beautiful as nature.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Jews went into the Death Camps they didn't ever get to see anything that had to do with nature ever again. Before they were brutally murdered all they saw was the grey and horrible surroundings bofore them. When the author saw the butterfly he wished he could see it again, but knew that he probably wouldn't. When he wrote this he was trying to say that it was sad that whenever they walked into the camps they would never return to there homes, or to comforting surroundings. The butterfly represented the transparent hope that the people had of getting out, but the knowledge they had that they never would negated this hope.
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to the Holocaust because the author was out of place just like the author was.He knew that he would never see another thing as peaceful as a butterfly. There were few good things in a concentration camp.He realized that he should enjoy nature while it lasted. Soon the butterfly would be gone and it would be bad again.
ReplyDeletethis was very sad because because it was so true. victims never did see another person after this. it was just like the butterfly it never saw another butterfly. just like the victims never saw anther loved face outside of the dreadful gates of a concentration camp. this is how real it was. the poem makes it so scary how it shows what the holocaust was. i know i would had never survived these dreadful events.
ReplyDeleteI think this relates to the Holocaust by the way people feel. They feel very saddended because of the way of life and how there were very few signs of hope. There is no nature or beautiful things to comfort them and at least to give them a little sign of hope. They live in very sad conditions which makes them feel even more that there is nothing good that can happen to them in their life full of sorrow. They probably feel that no one or anything can help them get out of the situation they are in,but they still wish there was.
ReplyDeleteIt's relating to the Concentration Camps by the way he saw the butterfly. They would never see something so pretty again. The only thing they saw was death. they wannted to see trees live preety animals stuff like that not daed and dieing pepole i think the auther wanted to show the harsh life in the Concentration Camps
ReplyDeletewhen the jews where sent to concentration camps they were always seeing nothing but torture and death.But this butterfly was a symbol of beauty in a world full of hatered and death as if saying even in the darkest situation there is hope.This person probably was in a concentration camp and seeing that butterfly gave him hope. So the ghettos were immprosining him much like a concentration camp and his salvatio was a tiny little butterfly. this shows how all these victoms could do was hope that they survive and live another day.
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I think this poem relates to the holocaust because after the jews were sent to those camps, they never got to see the beautiful colors. Another reason it relates is that it talks about being penned up and so were the jews. The butterfly is like the Jews who were trapped living in the ghetto. The only things they saw were there friends and family being murdered. They also felt like nobody could help them even though they wish there was.
ReplyDeleteI think the holocaust it talks about the ghetto being the concintation came and being no life in that place.They never saw any nature no little animals.its also related because they were in there for like weeks with nothing to eat or nothing to lay on, just like the poem says stuck in the ghetto for 7 weeks.it also takes about not seing anymore butterflies and that meant seeing no more jews in the camp because they were all killed.
ReplyDeleteI think it relates to the concentration camps. How they never saw anything they enjoyed. In the camps it was just fear and sdness. The poem shows that once they entered the camps there was no more joy. There was only a few nice things in the courtyard. Beside that it was completey sad.
ReplyDeleteI think that this poem relates to the holocaust by saying something so beautiful should not live in something so bad. The butterfly is whats beautiful which represents humans.The ghetto is the bad which represents what the butterfly lived in during the holocaust.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly wants to get out of that place. The concentration camp, the people want to get out. The butterfly would rather die than stay in there. People in the camps would rather die than be in there. Back in 1942 the author was referring to the ghetto which was the concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about being trapped in the consentrtion camps.He wants to get out and the butterfly he saw wanted to die because he hated be stuck in the consentration camp. the butterfly would rather die then be stuck in the consentration camp.there wasent alot of beauty in the consentration camp it was just very boring. the buttlerfly is suffering in the consentration camp.
ReplyDeleteI think the buterfly poem has to do with the consentration camps because.The buterfly wanted to get out of the place and never come back. The jews in the consentration camps wanted to get out of there. They didnt want to go back. But they had no choice. the buterfly was never seen agian. Alot of the jews that went in was never seen agian. Just like the buterfly was never seen agian.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly would rather die tha be in there. The courtyard was his freedome. The courtyard had trees and flowers. The ghetto was where that certain group of people lived in its not like the ghetto today. He has lived in the camp 7 weeks when he had wrote this poem the butterfly.
ReplyDeleteI think the poem is trying to say that the Jews havent seen the outside world in a verylong time. I think the poem is trying to say that the Jews wanted to get out of the camps they were in. I think the poems is trying to say that the Jews have been in the camps for seven weeks within a Jewish ghetto. I think the poem is trying to say that they dide in the camps that they have been living in for several weeks.
ReplyDeleteI think it relates to the holocaust because.Like the butterfly wanted to be set free.The jews want to be set free from the concentration camps.because he said that he would rather die than to be in there just like the butterfly. Cause he wa sbut in there for no reason and he just wanted to be set free from the olace that he was in just like the butterfly.
ReplyDeleteI think that the poem is about the butterfly that it is traped and wants to get out of thier.Like the jews were in the camps and had a home before. The nazi took them away and they miss thier homes were they use to live. That a lot of jews died there.
ReplyDeleteThe poem relates to the holocaust because Jews were trapped inside this camp. they wanted to be free by killing their selves. And the butterfly was thnking about doing the same thing because it was trapped. But it was hard for them because they were treated really bad and they didnt want to die either. But at the same time they had no choice because they were going to die anyways by the Green Police. Robert McDowell.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is was very hurtful because people didnt have freedom and the where hurt.Most of the time they were abused in there situation.Being in that sitaution was hard it was being like a slave.They would of been weak without any food or any water i think that is was cured the way that they were treated that is what i think.As will that all day that they would work in hot heat is not fair.
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The butterfly poem is about a butterfly that quotes he'd rather die then be in the concentration camp, he said the place was not pretty, the thing that made him miss being outside was the tree outside the window. He didnt wanna suffer anymore at the camp.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly means to me that he can fly ot but he feels traped in a way. but when the guy figures out that it can fly away it left. Then he felt like his life there was miserable. But then he found out another reason to live while he is there.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly wanted to get out of the concenstration camps so it did. But the Jews couldnt get out. The ghetto was the the concentration camps. Because they were all trashy and dirty. The butterfly didnt have to stay there but the jews did.
ReplyDeleteThis poem realtes to the Holocuast, because of the consentration capm's and how they wanted too get away and be free. Well the Butterfly feel's the same way bye getting away and kissing the word goodbye.Very simialr to how any human would feel living back into the Holocaust.
ReplyDeletethis poem relates to people being taken from their homes and being placed in concentration camps this was apart of hitler coming to power in germany and seeing a butterfly symbolizes happiness and it made the jews feel happy for a certain time.
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ReplyDeleteThis poem describes how a little boy had seen his last butterfly. Because when Jews were sent to concentration camps, there was no beauty. And the last thing someone would see would be something beautiful. like a butterfly.The butterfly was kissing the world goodbye, because it wanted to die and not live. That's how many people felt back in the holocaust.
I think this poem relates to the holocaust by because i think that the butterflies represented freedom, happyness, and the jews. I think the the girl/poet is sad because where they are there are no butterflies. They miss being able to walk outside and be happy. This also could relate to the holocaust by the butterflies were the jew and they were leaving. So there weren't many jews left in the end.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly is like the holocaust because its like your walking and you see a bunch of Jews walking around.Then you start to notice little by little there being picked off.And there are less and less around.Then your walking and you see one Jew walking by him self sad.Then the next day you see him go away.And that was the last Jew you ever saw. Any where in your area you see no more, there all gone.:(
ReplyDeletei think that the person who wrote the poem nelieves tat it is to "dark" in the camps for something so bright. it is good that he found something that he loves because it take his mind off some of the troubles. When he says "becauseit wished it kiss this world goodbye" that even buturflys can see how bad it is. When he says ghetto i tink he means somewhere where you are trapped. tis poem shows how the camps can make you think in a difrent way.
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly realtes to the Holocaust because nobody got the chance to see beautiful things they didn't see the beautiful things because they were in the ghetto, concentration camp .I think that when the Jews were put inside the camp they knew that they wouldn't see the people that they loved. It's just like the butterfly when it gets trapped into a spider web the can not get out. They knew that their lives were going to be miserable.
ReplyDeleteI think that the poem of the butterfly was meaning that this person wanted to fly free. I think this poem is connected to The Holcouast because the people in the concentration camps most likely wanted to be like a butterfly. I think that because they all wanted to be free.
ReplyDeleteI think that this poem is him trying to express to everyone outside the camp how he felt. How his life was and one of the only things he loves about it. The light in the dark was the butterfly. When the light was gone he was sad & that makes me sad. ok(:
ReplyDeleteI think this poem realtes to the holocaust because the butterfly was free and it made the man think what if he was free and he wanted to be free so that really made him thing about thing
ReplyDeleteI think of the butterfly poem is sad. Sad because if you see somehting really pretty your going to want to see it alot because if youre in a really ghetto place and its really ugly where you live at and if the butterfly is the only pretty thing it would be nice to see atleast something thats that pretty :)
ReplyDeleteI think the man knew that was probably going to be the last butterfly he was going to see. In the concentration camp there is almost no nature to give people hope that they will survive in the concentration camp. The only piece of nature in the concentration camp is the chestnut tree.
ReplyDelete:)I beilieve the butterfly will come back one dayy to sore the skys to come to play, also one day the time could tell that the butterfly would come also tell tall tales , i believe it connects to the holcaust because once the people got on the trains they knew they wouldnt come back to there town and its also connecting to the poem because the people gave there goodbye's to one another when spreated from one another and the yellow shows the color of the star of david thats how i think the holocaust connects with the poem the butterfly
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly poem relates to the holocaust because a man gets taken away from his family and evrything he loves when he gets taken to the ghettos. Just like the jews were taken to the concentration camps. It also relates because when they were taken away they never got to see the sky or the beautiful butterflies again. The jews were like the butterflies because they don't belong in the ghettos. They deserve to be freeee:-)
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about a guy that is in the concentration camp and he knows he’s never going to see any thing good. So he is thinking about how bad it is in thier.so now he is sad ):
ReplyDeleteThis peom realates to the holocuast beacuse the butterfly is traped in the ghetto and would rather die than stay there just like the jews beacuse they would also rather die than stay there
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the holocaust because its talking about how they never saw a butterfly and it relates because they never saw Jews any more and also because its just like the concentration camps.
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I think that the story was sad because it was about a man who was Jews that got taken away by the Nazis. The man was gone and it was the last time he saw his family. There were other Jews that got taken away too and didnt see their families any more.Some people that were at the camps and stuff like that would white, peel, and would not eat at all. I think they just wanted to die already and say good-bye to the world because they werent going to come back.The man never got to live nomore but the butterflys do live till the end and this as the end of his life.
ReplyDeleteTo me this relates to the holocaust because you are in the camps and wish to be set free. How you would prefer to kill yourself or be killed by the Nazi's than to stay in the camp and work and be treated like dog's The author talks about the ghetto's as camps how they are seperated from others. How they treat the Jew's bad enough that they would want to kill themself or to be killed. And how you dont see much of things you would have seen on the outside
ReplyDeletei think it relates to the ghetto by the way the people act and feel.They feel very sad because of their way of life and how there arw like no signs of better or hope. theres nothing great like nature or beautiful things to comfort them and keep them happy.they live in very sad and bad conditions, there really is no hope.
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to the holocaust because the butterfly represents freedom. the butterfly is that the people at the concentration camps wanted to be, free. all of them were trapped and poor. they barely ate, and were tortured. the people wanted to be a butterfly, and live freely like me and everyone else today!!!
ReplyDeletemy reaction was sad becouse he saw his last butterflies before he die so he was so sad that he knw that he going to die.
ReplyDeleteIt relates to the holocaust a lot because its show a sad emotion.There also probably were not many butterflys in the concentration camps. They both make me feel very sad. The jews and other people did not deserve what happened to them. that is how the butterfly relates to the holocaust.
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to the Holocaust because a butterfly represents freedom and everyone who was in the concentration camps wanted to be free.But he knew he was going to die soon so he thought about the happiest thing he could think of.
ReplyDeleteI think this poem is very sad yet beautiful in a way. The butterfly was a symbol of hope and peace in a place that only brought only death and despair. I think this author related the butterfly to hope of getting out of the concentration camp, hope that he would ever see a loved one ever again even though he knew he couldn't escape. He knew that he wouldn't see another butterfly again because it didn't belong there just how he didn't belong there either. He knew his time would come just like everyone else around him but he still found things he loved during his time of pain and suffering. He found things of nature in the concentration camp that brought him death and sorrow.
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ReplyDeleteThe story the Butterfly is similar to the Holocaust of the saddnest they both shared. It referse to Jews of Germany. That butterflys is like the Jews, once they go away they will never come back. Where he's at it really close he hasn't seen another butterfly
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ReplyDeleteI think this relates to the holocaust.
I think its sad because it sad how some people had to go thought all that and they were innacent.
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ReplyDeleteI think this poem relates to the holocaust because when the man saw the butterfly he wanted to be free as the butterfly was, HE thought about what he would do if he was free .
This poem relates to the Holocaust in so many ways. The camps are known as the Ghetto, and it's a sad place to be. The butterfly was the last one their cause there bearly weren't any. It was a crule place to be, Another thing is that not alot of people could see beautiful things in the camps. They all knew they were going to die and so did the butterfly cause it kissed the world goodbye. If I were a jew I'd know how they feel. This poem made me sad because it made me feel like they felt. I honetly can't relate to this poem but I got an idea of how it was in the Holocaust with the mean leader Hitler.
ReplyDeleteI can connect the poem " I never saw another butterfly" to the Holocaust because they both deal with death. The Holocaust is very sad and the poem "I never saw another butterfly" is also sad but more importantly they both connect to Hitler and the nazis. I say that they both connect to Hitler and the Nazis because both Hitler and The Nazis put jews in the death camps.
ReplyDeleteIts sad that the people in the concentration camps were treated like this. They had to make the best of there surroundings and ammuse themselve. Being in there made people want to die like the person in the poem wanted to do. It represents how the people felt who were in the concentration camps. They felt very depressed.- Tatyana Perez
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ReplyDeleteThe poem makes me feel bad for the jews. I dont know how some Jews could live through that. If the Nazis killed all the Jews there wouldn't be any left just like the butterflys. The poem reflect to the jews in so many ways because the Nazis wanted the jew to leave the planet Earth for good.
ithink that the butterfly is isolated in that bad place he didn't have no life in that place no sulight in ther just him and that little on the tree and he was so sad i would be to and he knew he was coming to a death point
ReplyDeleteI can connect the poem the Butterfly to the holocauts because the narrator is saying that Ghetto is like a concentration camp and it is so bad that he wish to " kiss tha world and good-bye".the holocaust kill jewish because of what that they thought that they were inferior to them that's not a reason to kill 6 millions people and children
ReplyDeleteThe butterfly lived in a beautiful place like the jewish people. The poem The butterfly makes me feel sad for all the jews and makes me think about the Holocaust also the ghetto relates to the concentration camp.
ReplyDeleteI think this poem relates to the Holocaust because, something as sweet and pretty as a butterfly is trapped in this ghetto. "I never saw another butterfly" is also sad but more importantly they both connect to Hitler and the nazis. They felt very depressed
ReplyDeleteI think how you can connect the poem "i never seen a butterfly by how the nazis killed the jews and it was so many of them that they killed. the poem abot the butterflys makes me feel so bad that i want to cry and i one will suffer the way they did
ReplyDeleteThe poem "The Butterfly" relates to the Hollucoust becauase its talkuing how he is seeing a butterfly for the last time. How he knows his going to die in the ghetto. He found the happiness with thopse two thingin the court yard beteweeen his cavin and the other ones.
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I never saw another butterfly relates to the halocaust because it is sad and depressing how he saw that last butterfly before he died and just like the butterfly he was trapped there and just like the butterfly he was also going to die soon
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to the holocaust because they are talking about living in the ghetto. The ghetto is basically the concentration camp. And they are also talking about how in the concentration camp there are no butterlys. she also is saying that there is nuthing beautiful there exept some danilions shes fell in love with.
ReplyDeleteIt is like the holocaust because when the jews got taken away they would never go back. They were peened up in the ghetto. Like when a butterfly gets stuck in a spiders web it can ever be released
ReplyDelete"The Butterfly" relates to the holocaust because during the holocaust it was a time of sadness,people had to make the most of what they had during that time,ex: Anne frank gave gifts to her family from scratch even though they didn't have much.The man/boy in the butterfly wants to make everything last & make maybe the most of his time before he dies.The last butterfly he seen was probably a sign that things would get better.Things would get better but not soon.The butterfly he saw probably gave him some faith and hope.
ReplyDeleteI think the butterfly felt that he was alone in this death camp. With nothing around them. No sun light, no nothing. He was sad because he new he was going to die.
ReplyDeleteI think the buterfly is the meaning of joy and that the kids of the Holocaust never got to see joy again. I think butterfly means joy and free because its always free nobody takes it and treats it like a slave.
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