three questions and write brief essays (roughly 3-4 paragraphs)
1. Some texts express the desperation felt by workers who find themselves outside the working world. The poem “What Work Is” touches on this theme. Compare and contrast how the workers in this poem and another poem of your choosing deal with the prospect of not having work.
2. How do the principles of Benjamin Franklin, as expressed in the readings of this term (Autobiography) connect to the ideals of the farmer, as expressed by Paul Harvey’s words in “So God Made a Farmer”?
3. Some texts express the desperation felt by workers who find themselves outside the working world. The poem “What Work Is” touches on this theme. Compare and contrast how the workers in this poem and another poem of your choosing deal with the prospect of not having work.