After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in May
1940, the Dutch people were immediately faced
with the question of choice: how to respond to
the Nazi occupation. Tens of thousands of Dutch
people followed Hitler, and millions more looked
the other way. Eventually, a resistance movement
began to grow.
The Nazis needed Dutch collaborators to carry
out their fascist decrees. What would ha
Oh boy I’m gonna try or help as best as I can. After reading the poem I think that the imagery of freedom would be death. In the poem he consistently talks about how he could have died but didn’t. So I think that death would be freedom because it would end all of his struggling/ pain/ troubles. He constantly talks about how freedom (death) is so close in his grasp but he never quite makes it, he never dies. So I think he has a lack of freedom because although he could do what ever he wanted (for example jump in the river or take an elevator to the top floor) he never had the freedom he WANTED he never had the freedom to end life when he wanted to. And once he realized that he never had that freedom he decided that “life was fine”. I’m not sure if that makes sense but I hope it helps. If this confuses you then you should probably just wait till someone else answers
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