“Man with the

Hoe”
by Edwin Markham
 French artist  Jean-François Millet’s
world-famous painting of a peasant
Edwin Markham leaning on his hoe
 Edwin Markham
“dean of American poets”

a social commentary
focusing on America’s
working class and their
sufferings
protest against exploited
labor
“a poem of hope, a cry for
justice”
Guide Questions:
1.What is the image of the
man with the hoe?
2.How does the poet
describe him?
3.What is meant by the line,
“What to him are Plato and
the swing of Pleaiades?”
Guide Questions:
4. What does the bent body of the
man with a hoe signify?
5. According to the poet, who is
responsible for the condition or
state of then man with the hoe?
6. Who are the modern “man with
the hoe”?
7. How does the society treat them?
 WHAT POETIC
DEVICES ARE
EVIDENT IN THE
POEM?
POETIC DEVICES USED IN
THE POEM
Comparison between two things without
Metaphor
using “like”, “as”
speaks to an object, an idea, or someone
Apostrophe who doesn't exist as if it is a living person

Allusion references a person, place, thing, or event

Hyperbole “exaggeration”
“Sonnet 29”
by George
Santayana
Guide Questions:
1.What does the opening
line of the poem mean?
2.Who is being addressed by
the poet?
3.Why does the poet
consider the faiths of old
his daily bread?
Guide Questions:
4. What makes the
persona happy?
5. How do you view the
persona’s
circumstances?