How does the bent body of the man w/ the hoe signify?
- The bent body of the man symbolizes his inability to bear the "burdens of the world" on his back. In this, he stands for all the peasants and workers who have spent their lives laboring in the fields. The poem points out that overworking these people is wrong and that "masters, lords and rulers of all nations" must be accountable to God for the "perfidious wrong" of subjecting such endless backbreaking labor to people like him.
- Edwin Markham 's popular poem "Man with the Hoe," based on a painting by Jean-Francois Millet that is just as popular. A large, powerful, dirty and obviously exhausted man in the painting leans on his hollow while in a rocky field full of thistles.
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