Sec 2 Home Learning

Based on your understanding of the selected poem, perform extensive web research and write a report on your blog detailing the conflict represented in the poem(s) of your choice. Bear in mind that this piece of background information will allow your blog audience to further understand the poem as well as your analysis of the poem in Task 2.

Be sure to include your references and credit your sources.

Poem:

Rainbow Death

America did not foresee Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri! Expecting others to pay a high price. Now thinking twice? Toll on the innocent and unborn. Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn. Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead. All the deceit continues to spread. Nefariously America led astray - Generations untold WILL pay - Execrable effects of agent orange spray! Hubert Wilson

Hubert Wilson was a Vietnam war veteran who served in the USAF along a dozen or so intelligence school grads who prepared for about 14 months at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas, before anticipating being sent to Vietnamor elsewhere in southeat Asia in 1970. Half went to Da Nang while the rest went to Alaska.

Hubert Wilson health problems started about 15 years ago with unexplainable headache and limp pain.Central nervous system radically deteriorated with Parkinsonian type tremors, severe headaches, progressive limb pains about 4 years ago. No doctor could tell him what was wrong with him. He guessed that it was the contaminated water he drank at Shemya during his year there as an intelligence analyst.

Since his brain was functioning well, he turned to writing like his late father.

This poem is talking about the effects of war and how it affects the people involved in the war even when the war ended. Mnay people in Vietnam were affected by the war and which caused 400,000 deaths and 500,000 babies which were born with defects.