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Karl Marx believed that capitalism created a class that profited and a class that struggled. The Miller and his wife fit into the class that is struggling because the miller is losing his job to bigger corporations with better technology.

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The speaker is a Miller's wife during the Industrial Revolution.

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Very dark, a woman is scared for her husband.

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The millers wife was waiting for husband to come back she, lives in fear and hopelessness.

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The millers wife was waiting for husband to come back she, lives in fear and hopelessness.

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Walt seems to enjoy America singing, and by singing I mean working. Budd's concepts seem to fit well here since Marxism and Taylorism both suck and I doubt anyone would be singing under those ideologies. Budd seems to have a good idea of work and work related activities, and when Walt describes America in this way it seems he believes things are working as they should.

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19th century America, working class citizens.. working.

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"Sick with fear that had no form she knew that she was there at last; And in the mill there was a warm And mealy fragrance of the past."

The Miller's wife is remembering times where the mill used to have business, but it is now empty and almost useless. She is "sick with fear" because she feels that her husband has hurt himself.

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1948 Detroit, Chicago in Phillip Levine's home.

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The voice/ speaker of the poem is Phillip Levine

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Angry/frustrated at work for taking years of his life and his brother away from him.

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The underlying meaning of this poem is how the speaker and her brother have both lost so much of their lives to work; the demanding nature of the work has essentially sucked the life out of them.

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"Thirty years will pass before I remember that moment when suddenly I knew each man has one brother who dies when he sleeps
and sleeps when he rises to face this life" (Levine).
-The work has exhausted him to the point where it is more like he has died instead of sleeping.
-He "sleeps" when he is awake because the work prevents him from living his life freely; it is as if he is sleeping because he is alive, but not living.

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This poem connects to Thoreau's "Life without Principle" as the work described in "You Can Have It" controls every aspect of Levine and his brother's lives and does not bother to factor in the well-being of the worker.
-"Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant" (Thoreau).
-The above quote from Thoreau connects to the poem as Thoreau describes the worker as being like a slave to the economy, and the work described in the poem makes Levine and his brother slaves to the supply and demand system; the work is pervasive to their lives and prevents them from seeking out any personal fulfillment within their lives.

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-Violates the concept of personal fulfillment as Levine and his brother are unable to pursue any personal fulfillment or leisure activities as all of their time is consumed by work.
-The concept of commodity: there is a demand for work stocking beverage cases or working at the ice plant, so they work.

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In my opinion, the poem covers how many people are dissatisfied with the work that they perform, and believe that they are wasting their life doing that work.
-This poem showcases the more negative aspects of working life; like how the workload could be so strenuous that it could be the death of you : " a mouth that gasps
for breath and asks, Am I gonna make it?" (Levine).

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A positive one, Walt seems to like how America sings to him

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Walt Whitman is the speaker of this poem

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America was founded on those whom work and take care of themselves. When America is singing, everyone is working and working well. Doing their own part in this orchestra we call a country.

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"singing with their open mouths their strong melodious songs"
- singing like a well oiled machine.
"I hear America singing, varied voiced I hear"
- Establishes the poems entire meaning essentially, which is America working as an orchestra.
"each singing what belongs to them and nobody else"
- every individual contribution made by each American adds to the orchestra of singing people.

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During the Industrial Revolution, many people were loosing their jobs as technology improved. The poem takes place from a Miller's wife's point of view where she is waiting for her husband to come home from work, but he is late. She recalls a conversation she had with him where he said, "there are no millers anymore," and imagines that he is late because he killed himself.