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"Pain retold, is pain redoubled"What prompts someone to write about their suffering, and how do they convey a sense of their emotions to the reader?      Primo Levi is a final solution war victim, a survivor from Auschwitz, who for years was plagued by fault because he survived - a feeling that is passed on in Jewish tradition, which I get word being a fellow Jew. Jewish heritage is very burning(prenominal) to all Jews myself included, which is one reason why I can ascribe with the poet/author, his poems and his other act upons. Levi decided to write, rather than keep in, his feelings, and subsequently wrote both poetry, and a variety of prose, both fiction and autobiographical.The emotions in two of his poems, Shema and The Survivor be a melange of guilt, anger and sorrow. Levi feels guilt that he is living when so many another(prenominal) he knew argon dead, he is angry at how people are forgetting what happened less than 50 years ago, and also s ad at what has passed. These emotions are portrayed through various means in Shema, the two more or less effective being repetition of certain thought-provoking terminology, "empty eyeballempty womb" "cold heartcold hand" " stern heart and eyeshard like a rock". These words give an impression of what Levi feels for his captors, while invoking numbness that makes it real. The harsh consonant sounds, "creating cages for enslavement" invoke feelings of timidness because of the harsh attack from the words, even after it has been translated from the native Australian Italian.     Levi wrote other books, and in one (Survival In Auschwitz) it struck me how matter-of-factly he wrote deal his observations. Although the subjects of his works are the horrors that he saw during his time in the Death-camps, Levi wrote it so people could unwrap what it was like, so Jews and non-Jews alike could witness the memoirs of a survivor. The expo sition of the number tattooed on his arm, which functioned as an impromptu meal ticket, is registered as simply one more fact of life. "We became used to showing our number right away enough not to disorder the daily operation of food-distri howeverion weeks and months were needed to learn its sound in the German language." Levi documents the mundane life of the camp, a spot that is not often seen, laying out his knowledges with a reserve... ...te the past into the nonplus and the future, to expand in knowledge. His works not only captivate and interest, but they convey a deeply personal sense of true experience that makes the stories special and real. From reading his works you not only understand the pain, guilt and anger, but also the need for repentance. Levi believes his repentance comes in telling and re-telling his story.His work serves as a inciteer to everyone- not to let prejudice covert you against evil, to remind people of the great sorrow that happened, and not only does it groom and inform people, it also expresses feelings that should not be forgotten in eluding another Holocaust should happen. It serves as to inform people, or also remind them of what happened. It is his catharsis, and our education.Truly, his work is Shema Listen.BiographyCalling of KindredIL SISTEMA PERIODICO, 1975 - The Periodic shelveSE QUESTO ? UN UOMO, 1947 - If This is a Man / Survival in AuschwitzAD ORA INCERTA- or- LOSTERIA DI BREMA, calm poemsConversations with Primo Levi by Ferdinando Camon (1989)Quote Chinese proverb, "The Wisdom of the Chinese Sages" create 1987.