The poem is about a young jewish girl living in a concentration camp during the <span> Holocaust. The tone and the mood is depressing and doubtful. </span>
In compound sentence, there are two independent clauses that are joined using a coordinator. While in complex sentence, there are two or more clauses with one essentially an independent clause while there can be on or more dependent clauses. The difference between compound and complex sentence is that there is no dependent clause in compound sentence and at least there is one dependent clause in complex sentence.
“Sons abandon their fathers without emotion.”
To conclude that the prisoners are emotionally numb, you would use keywords/phrases. In the quote above, words such as “abandon” and “without emotion” show that the characters are void, show no remorse as they do not care. They are numb. -Can’t feel anything.
“The men tell each other to have courage” does not quite fill the line for “emotionally numb” as though they are probably feeling a sense of dread. Trying to encourage each other for the future.
