Through the lens of art

Below are a few shots of one of Anna's honors project for language arts. 

So cool to see the world through her eyes... 

For context on the poem that Anna wrote below for part of this honors project, you need to know about the opera called "The Parting" we went to see in May. 

The artistic director Mina Miller wrote this about the show: "The Parting is based on the art and short life of the great Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, widely considered one of the great literary witnesses to the Holocaust.  Radnóti was murdered on a forced labor march and buried in a mass grave. When his body was exhumed after the war, his jacket revealed a notebook with his final poems. The Parting illuminates Radnóti’s urgent quest for truth, beauty and love." 

The website Music of Remembrance gives more detail for the context of the opera: "It’s May 19, 1944 – the final evening at home for the great Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti and his beautiful, devoted wife Fanni.  Foreseeing his likely fate in a forced labor camp, Radnóti wonders as we often do why we are given life: 'To learn what love is. To love. To make beautiful things. To die.' Facing these stark illuminations brings a bright awareness of being."