Questions to answer: 1. What is the image of the man with the hoe? 2. How does the poet describe him? 3. What is meant by the line, "What to him are Plato and the swing of Pleaia- des?" 4. What does the bent body of the man with the hoe signify? 5. According to the poet, who is responsible for the condition or state of the man with the hoe? 6. As a child of the "future," how would you respond to the question, "How will the Future reckon with this Man?" posed by the persona? 7. Who are the modern "man with the hoe"? 8. How does the society treat them?
