{"id":1682,"date":"2025-12-05T22:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:47:15","slug":"annalisia-worrells-reading-of-archibald-grimkes-she-hanged-them-her-thirteen-black-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Annalisia Worrell&#8217;s reading of Archibald Grimke&#8217;s &#8220;She Hanged Them, Her Thirteen Black Soldiers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1W5QbnaLljO19rjY2_SsQCwzwoiOQa7BF\/view?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1W5QbnaLljO19rjY2_SsQCwzwoiOQa7BF\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose to recite \u201cShe Hanged Them, Her Thirteen Black Soldiers\u201d by Archibald H. Grimke because it was instantly impactful to me. I was immediately pulled in by the repetition. When the line \u2018she hanged them\u2019 was repeated I felt as if the poem could be read in several different ways. Was the \u2018she hanged them\u2019 intended to be angry, or was it supposed to be resigned? During my recitation I tried to go the more resigned route, however the complex potential meaning made me feel as if I basically had to pick the poem and I&#8217;m glad I did. The same anger and resignation with racism is a feeling that is still common today. Despite the specificity of what this poem describes, a country betraying their black populace is not an unheard of event. That sense of betrayal is still so relevant despite my having read this several years past when it was written. This poem was an appropriate choice because it shares a theme from one of my favorite texts from this class. Similarly to the short story about the black forgotten soldier, it talks about a country\u2019s dismissal towards its black soldiers. It reminds me of the imagery we got in other texts this year where soldiers were always treated as a singular entity with similar pain and a metaphorically similar body. However, I feel like black soldiers get left out of that likening, and I feel like that is a thought that I will take with me past this semester.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1W5QbnaLljO19rjY2_SsQCwzwoiOQa7BF\/view?usp=sharing I chose to recite \u201cShe Hanged Them, Her Thirteen Black Soldiers\u201d by Archibald H. Grimke because it was instantly impactful to me. I was immediately pulled in by the repetition. When the line \u2018she hanged them\u2019 was repeated I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,403,480],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-project","tag-she-hanged-them-her-thirteen-black-soilders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}