Annotate (explain) the sixth stanza of "A Cartload of Shoes" in the space below. Use your knowledge of the Holocaust to support your explanation. Stanza 6:

The feet of those boots
With buttons like dew,-
The child of those slippers,
The woman of that shoe?

This stanza humanizes the victims of holocausts, showing how they were human, with normal lives, feelings, clothes, personal utensils and families, like any other human being. However, they were brutally killed as if they were just any human being.

Explanation:

With the reading of the stanza shown above, we can see that the poet humanizes the victims of the holocaust through the description of the shoes found in the concentration camps. These shoes belonged to human beings who had a life full of elements, like any other human being. However, they were deprived of their elements, their objects, tortured and murdered, as if it were something filthy and disgusting.