Thursday, January 11, 2018

H. World Literature period 6

Health Detective:
In his poem, "The South" Langston Hughes calls the south "seductive as a dark-eyed whore, passionate, cruel, honey-lipped, syphilitic".....
What exactly is syphilis? Syphilis has a damning legacy.  What is the legacy, that Hughes may have known of when he wrote "The South"?

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