Like an eye fixed of a digital camera, the focal point all at once shifts to the helpless "throng ... ahead of it dissolves in sobs within the livestock vehicle. " those montagelike frames venture an image of an international grew to become not just upside-down but additionally inside-out: a hell delivered to the skin of the earth. during this secular inferno, ahead of being dropped at fuel chambers, the folk are gratuitously whipped, shot at, and throttled in livestock automobiles. The chaos of this antiworld, as Szlengel intimates, is such that it voids the Nazis of humanity; it empties them of the final vestiges of empathy and compassion, and transmutes them right into a demonic order of Ubermenschen. due to this metamorphosis, they understand the enclosed global from their place. for this reason they see their sufferers as farm animals on their strategy to the slaughter condo. In "Counterattack" Szlengel comprehends metaphorically the manifestations of this strategy, revealing the transformation of either the aggressor and the sufferer. As Szlengel sees it, the sufferer, 154 D Bearing the insufferable too, isn't impervious to the methods of dehumanization. therefore in Sartrean phrases, "the gaze of the opposite" determines the selfperception of the gazed upon. Reflecting the collective attention of his humans, the poet is a type eiron, a agony knower, who's in part in charge simply because he has hidden the key in their disgrace: their current bovinization in addition to basic degradation as pharmaki, the scapegoats resulted in the altars of historical past. Like Sutzkever, Szlengel despairs, and the psychic power of his depression shifts its focus from the victimizer to the sufferer in one of those alternating cathexis. hence like Sutzkever, Szlengel regards the condemned culpable, ignoring the viability of a number of the varieties of non secular resistance (discussed within the foregoing bankruptcy) that marked the Jewish reaction to the Nazi attack. it's consequently that he basically adumbrates the self-possession with which they met their dying. "The throng in silence sank to the floor. " but in "Co CzytaJem UmarJym" (This I learn to the Dead), the poet will pay homage to the honour in their self-possession in face of the phobia and pain confronting them. "Naibardziei m~czyJo to, ie wiedzieli co ich czeka, ie WYiechali z koszmarnym bagaiem prawdziwych czy nie prawdziwych wiadomosci zero sposobie zabiiania. "ll (The such a lot painful was once the truth that they knew what awaits them, that they left with the nightmarish luggage of real or unauthentic information regarding the tools of killing. ) yet in "Counterattack," the Jews are praised no longer quite a bit for his or her non secular integrity as for the armed uprising with which they have been and may be ready to go beyond the Nazi try to debase them. The encomium lauds the bovine, ravenous, ragged, and green ghetto opponents who proved their mettle within the January rebellion opposed to the armed from head to foot SS Goliath. It additional prophesies the rebellion that was once to occur in April: "Then, on that day / while at the Stimmung lulled urban / like hyenas they pounced at dawn's early mist, / Then the livestock woke up / And bared its enamel.