hum112 week 8 discussion AND response | Quick Homework Help

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Good Afternoon,

The poem I picked is called Disabled by Wilfred Owen. The message he is trying to convey I thought was of sadness, pity, and pain from another person’s perspective. He spoke of a soldier who was dismembered during the war, reflecting on what it used to be like before losing their legs and arm. That also how the disabled are perceived by others because of how they look. One of the lines he wrote, you can feel his pain and self-pity; “In the old times, before he threw away his knees, Now he will never feel again how slim girls waists are, or how warm their subtle hands. All of them touch him like some queer disease”. Another sentence that I thought was about that person being celebrated for going away and then ostracized when they come back broken: “Esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits. And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers. Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal. Only a solemn man who brought him fruits*Thanked* him, and then enquired about his soul.

If I was there back in the days of the Harlem Renaissance, I would want to get Langston Hughes autograph. I actually work at Lincoln University and he was an alumnus of our school. He graduated in 1929 alongside Thurgood Marshall who was his classmate.

Take care,