C. Factors to consider as part of the historical context of Hannah's poetry would include all the following except having her life depicted in a film.
Hannah Senesh was born in Budapest, Hungary on July 17, 1921 to a rich and prominent Hungarian Jewish family. Her father was a renowned writer and dramatist. Living in the 1940s and being exposed to the anti-semitist (anti-jewish) movement left a profound impact on her poetry,diary and plays. All these factors drove her to learn more about her jewish history and this reflects in her poems, especially the famous "Walking to Caesarea."
Baldwin talks of a "disease" which afflicts black Americans and can wreck race relations and creating a "rage in the blood" so he is using the "disease" as a metaphor for probably the rage that black Americans have for experiencing the inequalities of life in the US especially in the 1960's when the civil rights movement was so strong and segregation was so strongly practiced in the South still.
