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must preserve her, and hence, both shall obstinately war for her. By contrast, to German-Jews, Death is a Master from Deutschland: Hitler must recover Margareta and exterminate the other for her sake. Both epics thus sing, as if in a unified dirge collapsing centuries and place, of the death throes and wailing lamentations of “black milk of daybreak” drunk for beautiful Helen of Troy’s and for Margareta of Germany’s sakes:
From Stanza 5
“Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
we drink you at midday Death is a master aus Deutschland we drink you at evening and morning we drink and we drink this Death is ein Meister aus Deutschland his eye it is blue”
Celan, Death Fugue
Death fugue’s eerie song mourns and mourns for the ashen dead, as Homer’s Troy mourns and wails for dead Hektor and its valiant heroes, dead. It weeps and mourns for the atrocities and scorching wastelands endured for lovely-haired Helen and golden-haired Margareta’s sakes. Transfixed by her seductive, beautiful yet deadly gaze, they become Masters of Beauty and Death.
As Masters of Beauty and Death, they tyrannize. In their blind obstinacy to preserve Beautiful Helen, Prince Paris and King Priam drive Troy to holocaust and death. What appalls is that Prince Paris rules, and King Priam meekly obeys. Princely and Kingly roles are not only subverted, but competency flees away. King Menelaus is certainly adamant,
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