Socialism

• Edwin Markham - wrote a poem about the painting.
• Hoe - a garden tool with a long handle and a short blade
• Rapture - feeling of intense pleasure or joy
• Dominion - sovereignty or control, supreme authority
• Portent - omen of something momentous which can be good but it is often negative
• Fraught - undesirable result, causing or affected by anxiety or stress
• Reddening - make or become red or blush
• Soul quenched - consumed, drowned, snuffed and drenched
• Infamy - state of being well known for some bad quality or deed
• Perfidious - untrustworthy
• Immedicable - incurable
• Reckon - to regard or think of as
• Rebellion – opposition of authority
• Socialism - Theory of social organization which advocates that production distribution and exchange should be owned in the community as a while
• What was Jean Fracois Millet noted for?

  Peasant Farmers
• Man With The Hoe - Painted by Jean Francois Millet
• Millet was a painter of Melancholic Scenes
• Jean Francois Millet - A French painter and one of the founders of Barbizon School of Rural France
• Millet was categorized as a naturalist and a social realist because he naturally showed a melancholic feeling through his paintings
• Where was Edwin Markham born?

  Oregon, USA
• Markham was the youngest among 10 children. His parents divorced shortly after his birth.
• At 4 years old, Markham lived with his mother and his older sister. At 12 years old, he worked at their family farm and moved to San Francisco. He delve into farming and writing
• Markham had a degree in Classics in Literature. He went to a place in France where he saw the painting "The Man with the Hoe". He created a poem out of the painting
• What does the image of the “man with the hoe” primarily represent?

  The suffering and oppression of the working class
• In "The Man with the Hoe," what does Markham criticize through the depiction of the man?

  The exploitation of labor by the ruling class
• What tone does the poem convey regarding the man’s condition?

  Melancholic and critical
• What is Markham's ultimate message in "The Man with the Hoe"?

  The need for social reform and justice
• What best describes the tone of the poem?

  Angry and accusatory
• What best captures the poem’s view of the relationship between labor and human dignity?

  Labor can be destructive when it dehumanizes people