With Reference to at Least 2-3 of Amichai’s Poems, Identify the Main Stylistic Elements of His Work and Comment on Their Effectiveness.

With reference to at least 2-3 of Amichais poems, identify the main stylistic elements of his live and comment on their caseiveness. The main stylistic elements of the work of Yehuda Amichai greatly reflect the time in which he was writing and the place in which he was primed(p) whilst writing. Being born in Ger some(prenominal) in 1924 and then living in Israel in the 20th century meant that Amichai was exposed to a turbulent st senesce in world history as Israel had only just been created as a separate state after reality War II and Hitlers persecution of the Jewish race.At this time politics, war and religion were all at the centre of the worlds attention, and particularly for the Jewish people living in Israel as in that location was the invariant threat of violence from the Arab people in neighbouring Palestine. Throughout his work, Amichai is able to effectively convey the disruption and confusion cause by this conflict by use techniques such as scattered imagery and ir regular structure.To better understand the effectiveness of the stylistic elements utilize by Amichai, it is important to look at how he uses these techniques in his deeds. The root area of revolve somewhat that is important to understand Amichais style is to study where and when each poem is set. With contextual background it seems to be that roughly all of his poems are set in Israel or some sort of similar desert- bid place. God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children is one of Amichais earliest works and it gives a good indication as to the importance of place in his poetry.The importance of place is that in some of his works the prospect is very untold abstract and consciousness of a place in which the poem is set appears to change constantly, making the poem more universal and often with religious additions to the poems the setting is taken to a metaphysical, God like, all seeing dimension. In God Has pity on Kindergarten Children, Amichai changes place from a first-aid st ation to a desert like place as he describes sand before moving to a public bench and lastly a school.Then the idea of a metaphysical dimension is introduced with the reference to God and religion suggesting that God is all seeing and is watching over the world from the place in which he is located. The idea of thither being a nonher dimension from which God can look down on the world is reiterated in the poem, Gods Hand in the World where Amichai asks the question, What does God see through the window while his hands reach into the world? These religious images ink to the creation of a metaphysical place within the poems and they provoke the reader to think around how Amichai sees religion and how he responds to his own thoughts about God and his faith in general. The religious imagery that is recurring in many of his poems leads the reader to a conclusion that this is one of the main themes which much of Amichais work is centred around. The next key feature is the focus on time and how this affects the subject of his work whether it is a person, object or place.Amichai uses many ellipses in his work which makes the poems very radical which is mirrored in the constant change of place and the progression in time. In the poem, There Are Candles That have in mind there are three main measures of time given the first is twenty-four hours which is followed by eight hours and then there is a reference to candles that are eternal. In this poem, Amichai appears to be measuring life, and in particular his life, against the age of Israel which is a very new plain in this period.The inclusion of antiquities shows another dimension in the time references in the poem as it shows the past, but not the recent past as antiquities signifies relics that are possibly thousands of grades old. In some of Amichais poems there is modulation in tense, God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children shows modulation between stanza one and the other two stanzas with the shift from present tense to future tense.There is also modulation in There Are Candles That Remember however it is internal modulation in the lines, Late in my life I had a daughter who will be twenty-two in the year 2000. Her name is Emanuella In these two lines the tense changes from past to future to present with the words had followed by will and is which is another way in which Amichai shows the radical and uncertain nature of his work. Prominent in Amichais work is the inclusion of fragmented and scattered imagery and structure.The sudden shifts between subject matter in many stanzas are mirrored by the non-clustered imagery within the poems. There Are Candles That Remember has an irregular structure with lots of enjambed lines leaving the poem without a loaded structure. The imagery within the poem also contains many non-sequential and strange images such as the candles that remember where Amichai has personified the candles, this is then followed by the metaphorical reference to a sphere f ull of precious liquid. The images that follow are unrelated to the ones already mentioned, like the imile of the diaspora of old people that are said to be scattered about like antiquities and then the comparison to how Amichais soul is built like mountain terraces. This style of scattered and mostly unrelated imagery helps to add to the sense of confusion and chaos in the life that he lives especially in the time in which he is living as the creation of the new country of Israel along with the conflict between the world superpowers meant that the 20th century was a time when tension and war were ever present threats to peace.Some of Amichais imagery that is used in his work is very graphic and the use of the human body no matter how much or little is prominent in many of the poems. One of the best examples of this use of imagery is the poem, A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention which opens with the image of a surgical procedure as the commencement line reads, They amputated your thighs from my hips. The body part imagery makes the poem seem more physical and possibly is an attempt by Amichai to highlight the loss of intimacy with someone that he wonderd. A cut through After Love is a good example of the use of body part imagery as well as an example of the indignation felt by Amichai which is expressed through his poetry. His anger and frustration is usually caused by love, politics and religion, and in the case of A Dog After Love it is the loss of love that causes the anger expressed by Amichai. This poem probably shows the most violent and graphic response to the loss of love as Amichai writes, I hope it will find you and rip your lovers balls to shreds and bite off his cock.This image effectively conveys the indignation felt by Amichai in a highly graphic way which makes it more impacting on the reader and therefore it has a greater immediate effect. Overall the main stylistic devices used by Amichai are the scattered imagery, irregular structures, often undefined place and changing times in which the poems are set. Furthermore, his work is always very individualised with a great use of the words I and my in almost all of his poetry.All of these elements help to create very unique poetry that often has an impacting effect on the reader as the individual style of Amichais writing makes it necessary for the reader to think carefully about what he is writing about and what emotions he is trying to convey. Personally, I feel that Amichais work very effectively conveys the emotion felt by the events he is writing about and the private nature of his work sometimes provokes sympathy, sadness, happiness or disdain which is a sign of an effective style of writing.