Answer:
He didn't have a left hand.
Explanation:
Tom's left arm was seriously injured in a cotton gin accident when he was a boy. The muscles were all torn loose, so it is about a foot shorter than his strong right arm, and is essentially useless to him.
True
do not make any promise if it cannot be kept
You could argue that Auden’s poem contains some of the Imagist elements W.C.W. pioneered, but the essence of their similarities is really in the approach of each to the role of individual experience.
Bruegel’s painting really captures the essence quite well—the fall of Icarus was a matter of myth and legend, but such noteworthy events as that are largely irrelevant to the lives of most. Life goes on and our duties do not wait for us to marvel at such intrusions.
You can see—below the ship—the legs of Icarus sticking out of the water, yet the ploughman still toils.