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On a stormy December night in 1776 General George Washington and his men braved the cold and crossed the Delaware River to attack unsuspecting British soldiers. This bold move helped to turn the tides of the American Revolution and proved to be one of the most important American victories of the war. This historical battle was commemorated through a painting by German artist, Emmanuel Leutze. The painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River properly represents the fighting spirit and resiliency of the colonial forces during the American Revolution.

If an artist were to paint a picture depicting the poem “Oregon Winter” by Jeanne McGahey the colors that would predominate are gray and brown. Some of the visual details are the gray farmhouses with gray smoke coming from the chimneys. There would be soaked green hills in the background and brown “blotches of wet on the dusty road” leading up to the houses and barns. Visible from the windows of the barns are lofts piled high with wet yellow straws. The picture would also capture the sagging plumages of the wild geese flying in the sky next to the bloated gray clouds bursting with rain. Finally, there would be farmers conducting their chores, getting drenched in the slow, heavy rain of winter. It is dreary, and no one is in a rush.

The author uses a seemingly endless cycle of poverty to emphasize the cage in which the characters are trapped. As Lizabeth muses over her childhood, she recalls the daily cycle of how “each morning our mother and father trudged wearily down the dirt road and around the bend, she to her domestic job, he to his daily unsuccessful quest for work.” (1). Every morning began the same way, passed the same way, and ended the same way. Lizabeth feels trapped, forced to go through the same series of events for what seems to be the rest of her life, with the same people, in the same place. When the author pairs this with the “dusty” setting of the town and the time placement of the Great Depression, it creates an effect of hopelessness for the first part of the story. This is only furthered by Lizabeth continually returning to the idea that “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped.” (1). Lizabeth opens the story by first giving a description of her hometown as “dusty”, remembering the poverty and hopelessness. She then continues by referring to the cage of not having enough money, and the cycle that it put them through, and ends by alluding to her future being limited to her poverty.

The truth behind the poem “Poverty and Wealth” is bone-chilling, almost as if it was meant for a character like Ponyboy Curtis. On the east side of town, there lives

I wrote my found poem based on Junior’s struggle of poverty and being poor. In the first stanza, I explain how Junior is poor with the quote, “I came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the first poor people” (Alexie 11). This shows how it is not Junior’s fault that he is poor, but also that it is not any Indian’s fault either. In the second stanza, I explain how Junior attempts to fit in. “To be something other than poor” (11). This line shows that in order for Junior wants to fit in or belong at Reardan, he can’t show his poverty, because he won’t be judged by “having a little money” or by “being middle class”.

Imagine what you would all be like if, despite adversity and poverty, you still had a positive outlook on life? What would happen if you lived every day to the fullest? You would probably look back on life fondly despite all your hardships that you may have faced. Gwendolyn Brooks addressed the issues of poverty and living to the fullest in “The Bean Eaters” and “Sadie and Maud.” Both these poems have similar themes and some differences as well. This paper is about the contrasts between the two poems.

In the poem “January, 1795” by Mary Robinson, she writes about people living in luxury while others are in poverty. She shows this throughout, such as, “Lords in ermine, beggars freezing”. The world around her seemed to be expanding while the rich try to keep up with the new advances while going bankrupt from their lifestyle in the process. While the poor remain in poverty and seek opportunity as they beg on the streets or seek shelter, they are overlooked by the wealthy. Robinson describes this as a very cold and dark time for everyone but she seems to still find the beauty out of the worst situations.

“Lake Morning in Autumn” is written by Douglas Livingston. It describes the nature scene of a stork’s natural behavior after a long journey. The author illustrates the image of a stork standing in water with its thin legs at dawn. The stork looks tired and exhausted due to the long flight it just went through. It is the first of its kind to arrive, and therefore it presents a solitary feeling. It carries on with its journey as the sun rises.

Arna Bontemps wrote “A Summer Tragedy” in 1933, four years into the Great Depression. A native of Louisiana, Bontemps’ family moved West when he was a very small child due to racial tension and segregation in the South (p. 278). The setting of “A Summer Tragedy,” the Mississippi River Delta during the Depression, in the days when black sharecroppers farmed the land surrounding the great river, reflects Bontemps’ own heritage and childhood experiences, as well as plays a key role in the story. “A Summer Tragedy” uses a sad, weary, solemn tone in the third-person limited point-of-view to tell the story of Old Jeff Patton, a black sharecropper, and his blind wife, Jennie. It tells a story of deep sorrrow and suffering, but also of courage and resignation, by painting a picture in the reader’s mind with descriptive imagery, foreshadowing throughout the story of the tragedy to come, the simultaneous account of both an internal and an external conflict, and motifs repeated throughout the story.

The village is deserted because its occupants have been forced to leave. The governmenthad put an end to the common land that gave rise to the social order and livelihood of the villagers, who were left either to move to a city or migrate to America. Goldsmithrecognizes in this the passing of a way of life, which he truly laments. The poet

Economic status can affect living condition. This is demonstrated in the poem wherein Jason’s family lives in an apartment due to financial constraint. This living condition triggers substantial health risk due to overcrowding and poor ventilation in tight spaces, inadequate water supply and poor sanitation.

Kerouac uses the character of Sal and the characters he meets along his journey to exemplify the notion that poverty is not always overtly negative. A unifying trait amongst the characters, poverty is a common topic; to illustrate, the cowboy from part I refers to a time during the Depression, when “hundreds of men” would

Secondly, the picture doesn’t show only about the poverty but the deeper meaning. I can see he suffer with pain day by day and suffering in multiple conditions. He was suffering physically, emotional, and mentally. The boy must have suffer in pain for his body, moreover; the lack of moneys make him even greater suffering in emotional and mentally. The lacking of money probably also can’t be able to see a doctor and can’t afford the to buy the medicine he nessery needed. The weakness of his body must cause fugitive, no strnagies, and begin able to move effectively. The emotional must pull him

The industrial era of factories was present in the mid 1900s in Detroit. As factories rose to power, they became a wide source of employment. Levine’s poem captured the essence of Detroit by saying “no one wakened or died, no one walked the streets or stroked a furnace” (Levine 27-28). This description shows the false lives that people lived because they did not have other options. Either it be living or working, Levine’s work depicts the people of Detroit in 1948 living for the wrong reasons.

Another of William Wordsworth’s poems that this essay intends to discuss in the context of poverty and suffering is “The old Cumberland beggar”. From reading and understand the poem “The old Cumberland beggar”, it is appropriate to suggest that this is another poem from the Lyrical ballads that examines the themes of poverty and suffering. From the introduction and title of the poem, physical appearance again appears to be one of the most evident and major influences of the conception of human suffering. From a reader’s understanding of the title and context of the poem, it is understood that the beggar in this circumstance is an “aged beggar” (Wu). Instantaneously, there becomes an image in the reader’s mind of an old homeless man who is feeble weak and lonely. These are all characterisations that represent poverty and suffering in Wordsworth’s poetry. Wordsworth describes a moment in the poem where the old man “ate his food in solitude”. The suggestion of suffering is depicted through the description of the moment where his food becomes “scattered from his palsied hand”, a hint of both poverty and suffering is then conveyed when it is explained that the beggar is “still attempting to prevent the waste” suggesting that this man experiences rough living conditions and