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The document analyzes a poem about the exploitation of laborers and workers. It discusses several stanzas that describe the situation of a man with a hoe and question God, cry for injustice, and call to those in power. The poem protests exploited labor and the suffering of workers.

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The document analyzes a poem about the exploitation of laborers and workers. It discusses several stanzas that describe the situation of a man with a hoe and question God, cry for injustice, and call to those in power. The poem protests exploited labor and the suffering of workers.

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RELEVANT/SOCIAL

ISSUES:

- Labor exploitation
- Human equality
- Abused

EXPLAIN THE MEANING


OF THE POEM:

-The first stanza describes the


situation of the man with a
hoe…

-The second stanza describes


how the situation of the man
with a hoe questions God…

-The third stanza is a cry for


injustice and betrayal…

-The fourth stanza is a call to


those who are on top of the
ladder…
-The fifth stanza shows a -He also uses the men that
voice of hope for realization has been blessed by God to
and redemption… highlight how we should
have lived, rather than how
-It is a poem against we treat these people.
exploited labor which
focuses on the working class -the man with the hoe
and the sufferings of the portrays a social issue which
workers. The poem of protest is labor exploitation.
was striking to the readers
and they must have felt the
agony that workers face, -it illustrate how brutal
especially a farmer or a master oppose his lowly
peasant who seem to carry servant or worker this shows
the world upon his shoulders. an exploitation or
mistreatment of the poor by
the rich and powerful people.
-The "man with the hoe"
represents slaves and
servants who have been -the man in the poem cant
robbed of their humanity. feel joy or pain because his
The poem alludes how we constant labor has made him
can make right the bent back senseless.
of a man who has been
abused and stolen of his
freedom and facility.
Markham asks how we can
right a man who we had
systematically put down and
made to feel like the dirt of
the ground.

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