Poems From Other Cultures

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Poems From Other Cultures

Introduction

Both of the poems I have studied have a similar theme. The people who the poem are based on are being treated badly and are fed up at being treated like dirt. They have been treated badly for so long eventually they begin to hate the people who are mistreating them, and want to get some pay back for the way they have been treated over the years In each poem the person who is being treated does something about it. In Charlotte O’Neil’s song the servant quits her job and leaves the mistress who treated her with no respect high and dry. Charlotte then immigrates to another country and leaves the trouble behind her.

        In the poem nothing changed. A black man is being treated badly by the white folk. He is being discriminated against because of the colour of his skin. In the concluded part of the poem the black man gets his own back on the whit people by breaking the glass of an inn he was not welcome in because of the colour of his skin. Both of the poems have powerful endings

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        The Mistresses life is full of riches she lives in Luxury. The mistress lives in a majestic mansion were she is waited on hand and foot. The lady is extremely wealthy. In thee era this poem was scripted women did not have very influential roles in the working world with very few having a job. Therefore, the rich lady is probably living off somebody else’s fortune. She has done nothing to deserve being treated like a princess of a small island.

        On the other hand, this leaves with the poor mistreated servant who works very hard and gets paid very little and is treated some if not any respect and for all her hard work.She probably just earns enough money to prevent herself from starvation. This mistress life is a stark contrast from the lowly servants life.

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        “Lay on a silken pillow” whilst the poor servant slept                

        “On an attic cot.” This shows the difference in class between the two females. The living conditions for the two women were very different. The mistress living conditions were great but the servants were extremely poor.

        This poem also shows how little regard the mistress had for her staff.

        “I scrubbed till my hands were raw” this lets us know how hard the servant worked and she got little or no reward. The servant probably had know treatment for her injured hands this just shows that the rich mistress ...

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