Jag drar ett streck / skriver alfabetet : Exilen som katalysator för Nelly Sachs lyrik

Sammanfattning: German-Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Nelly Sachs is remembered for her poetry written while in exile in Sweden. In this essay I have tried to examine how the exile situation shaped her poetry and what different kinds of stages the poetry went through. For example - how it went from being dark and painful when concerning the holocaust, into light and hopeful with reconciliation during the last years of her life. The exile turned out to be a catalyst to her poetry.