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Man with a hoe by Edwin Markham.

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The Man with a Hoe
Edwin Markham
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What comes to your
mind when you hear
the word Laborer?

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Laborer
A laborer is a person who
works in manual labor types

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A reproduction of the painting
“The Man with the
Hoe” by the French artist Jean
Francoise Millet.
Millet believed that man was
condemned to bear his burdens.
This farmer is Everyman. His face
is lit, yet composed of blots of
color that give him no
individuality. He is big and dirty
and utterly exhausted by the
backbreaking work of turning this
rocky, thistle-ridden earth into a
productive field like the one being
worked in the distance. A tribute
to dignity and courage in the face
of a life of unremitting
exertion, Man with a Hoe was long
considered a symbol of the
laboring class.
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Hoe
a long-handled
gardening tool
with a thin
metal blade,
used mainly for
weeding and
breaking up soil.

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Edwin Markham
was born on April 23, 1852,
in Oregon City, Oregon, the
youngest of six children.
Edwin Markham was an
American poet. From 1923 to
1931 he was Poet Laureate
of Oregon. He saw the
original painting “The Man
with a Hoe” in 1887. Twelve
years later, he wrote a poem
inspired by the painting.
Both the painting and the
poem won world recognition
because of their universal
message.

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Edwin Markham

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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans   
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,   
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.   
Who made him dead to rapture and
despair,  

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A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?   
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

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Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for
power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the
suns

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And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf   
There is no shape more terrible than this—
More tongued with censure of the world’s blind greed—
More filled with signs and portents for the soul—
More fraught with danger to the universe.

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What gulfs between him and the seraphim!   
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him   
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of
song,   
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?

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Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop;   
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,   
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,   
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,   
A protest that is also prophecy.

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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,   
is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-
quenched ?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;   
Touch it again with immortality;

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O Give back the upward looking and
the light;   
Rebuild in it the music and the
dream;   
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

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O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man?   
How answer his brute question in that hour   
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings—

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With those who shaped him to the
thing he is—
When this dumb Terror shall reply to
God   
After the silence of the centuries?

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The poem which depicts the difficulties
experienced by people who suffered under forced
labor due to poverty is an eye-opener to the
readers then and even now. In the poem, he
described a man whose in a very drastic situation
wherein his purpose and will to actually continue
existing is questioned. Even the purpose on why
God, who created humanity, was placed in a tough
situation here. Markham also addressed the rich
and powerful who do nothing of the hard work but
reaps the rewards of their laborers.  
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The ending of the poem however
actually gives hope on what could
happen when all the oppressed
come together to beat the rich and
powerful. This is kind of a calling to
stand up for the rights we rightfully
deserve to practice.
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Vocabulary

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Rapture
A feeling of intense pleasure
or joy; emotional ecstasy.

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Stolid
Calm, dependable, and showing
little emotion or animation.

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Portents
A sign or warning that something,
especially something momentous or
calamitous, is likely to happen.

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Pleiades
 also known as the Seven Sisters and
Messier 45, are an open star cluster
containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars
located in the constellation of Taurus.

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Rift
A crack, split, or break in
something.

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Profaned
treat (something sacred) with
irreverence or disrespect.

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Infamies
The state of being well known
for some bad quality or deed.

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Perfidious
deceitful and untrustworthy.

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Immedicable
Unable to be healed or treated;
incurable.

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Reckon
Rely on or be sure of doing,
having, or dealing with.

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