This association of golden hair, death and ash brings to mind Celan's horrific evocation of the Holocaust in 'Todesfuge' [Death Fugue], also
in 1945, which famously ends with the iconoclastic images of 'dein goldenes Haar Margarete | dein aschenes Haar Sulamith' [your golden hair Margarete, your ashen hair Sulamith] (Celan, Die Gedichte, p.
Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s
