The hardship in the society with a common theme or tone in the selection poems and stories period when the hardship was found in the poem it has to do with the way the characters what life was like. In the all of them, they talk how some have to battle every day …show more content…
All that the characters in the stories had was work to do and trying to supply their families. In one poem called “Middle Class Blues” it shows a connotation with the people that it what every day they got something else in return. I'm the quote it shows a pattern of what they used to show, “ the grass grows the social product, the fingernail, the past”(Enzensberger 399). This shows everything that is there for them and everything that is needed to live. In the second the quote connecting to the products and what they have it compares to what they thrive upon. This quote is that people use all of this, “ we eat the grass we eat the social we eat the fingernails we eat the past”(Enzensberger 401). This quote shows how everything that they do is in a cycle and it comes back to them. The people or characters of these poems we are always in a cycle so it made them not even want to fight for what they believe in anymore. When people dead fight it change them to a negative self being which probably was not like they want to come into. These poems show how standing up can even change a peaceful person into a vicious man. Since Hitler and the world war happening it made people not want to try because of maybe threat swords what they wanted to …show more content…
Person versus society also caused many other issues things out of someone's reach. These points were shown by the author using denotation and connotation in the stories debt were written. Person versus society was a main theme throughout the stories so learning could be the effect of that or cause of it can be helpful forever readings close to this subject. Finding a theme that connects to these poems is important because the reader can understand more about