But Perhaps God Needs the Longing
How does the author use foreshadowing in But Perhaps God Needs the Longing?
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When Nelly Sachs first began to write, she wrote of the longing for a lover and of the disappointment of lost love. After her experiences during the Holocaust this foreshadows the cycle of death and rebirth that the speaker muses about.