The Man with the Hoe (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwin Markham
- First Published: 1899
- Type of Work: Ode
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Ode
The Poem
Edwin Markham, who has been called “the dean of American poets,” received national fame, and later worldwide fame, when he published “The Man with the Hoe.” It changed his career immediately. The poem consists of forty-nine lines divided into five stanzas of social commentary that focus on America’s working class and their sufferings. It is a striking poem of protest against exploited labor.
After viewing French artist Jean-François Millet’s world-famous painting of a peasant leaning on his hoe, The Man with the Hoe (1862), Markham was...
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