1. What is the image of the man with the hoe?

Ans: Jean-François Millet’s painting, Man With a Hoe, depicts an

exhausted peasant man working in a field. It was meant to highlight
the plight of the working class and was considered very
controversial at the time. Inspired by this painting, Edwin Markham
wrote the poem “The Man with the Hoe.” Markham’s poem
describes a hopeless laborer who is treated more like a beast than
a human being.

2. How does the poet describe him?

Ans:The poet describes the man with the hoe as a pitiful and
pitiable figure. He is bowed down 'with the weight of centuries' and
carries the 'burden of the world' on his back. Continuous, crushing
labor has so dehumanized the farmer that he has become a 'thing
that grieves not and that never hopes.' Furthermore, there seems to
be no vehicle for his voice to be heard.

Basically, the poet draws our attention to the degradation that is the
direct result of the farmer's subsistence lifestyle. He laments that
the creature God has made to 'have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the
passion of Eternity,' has become nothing more than an automaton,
to be exploited at the hands of the rich and the powerful. The poet
also argues that 'those who shaped him to the thing he is' have so
marred God's creation that the farmer has become a 'monstrous
thing distorted and soul-quenched.'

Our attention is further drawn to the farmer's physical deformity.

The poet uses the imagery of the 'dread shape humanity
betrayed' to characterize the suffering endured by the anonymous
masses of victimized humanity. To that end, the poet questions
how the powers that be will ever be able to straighten the 'aching
stoop' before 'this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world' and the
'whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores.'
3. What is meant by the line what to him are plato and
the swing of pleiades?
Ans: Plato, representing knowledge or intellect
Pleiades representing the stars (in the sky, the seven stars)
"What to him are Plato and the swing of Pleiades" may mean he
has no more time to pursue knowledge and appreciate beauty
around him because he is preoccupied with hard work and labor.

4. What does the bent body of the man with the hoe signify?

Ans: The man has been bent and bowed by the figurative weight of
responsibility on his shoulders. A life of work is all he knows, and he
bears the "burden of the world." His life, nothing but toil, has "made
him dead to rapture and despair" so that he has become a "thing
that grieves not and that never hopes." Toil is his entire life, to the
point that he does not even feel—what would be the point of feeling?
It does not lessen one's burden or lighten one's work. He is almost
an animal, "a brother to the ox," because he has been stripped of
his humanity. We are meant to do so much more than work. The
"light within this brain" has been blown out, and he seems, no
longer, to resemble the "Thing the Lord God made and gave / To
have dominion over sea and land." He is no master now. He feels
no "passion," and he asks no questions of the "heavens." Out of all
the things a person is capable of doing, he only does one: work. He
is a "Slave of the wheel of labor" and no more. He does not think or
wonder or dream. His "aching stoop" signifies the tragedy of his
lowly condition when he might have been, and should have been,
so much more.
 5. According to the poet, who is responsible for the
condition or state of the man with the hoe?
Ans: The poet points to the owners of the land as those who are
responsible for the terrible condition of those that work for them.

Explanation:

The poem appears to touch on the eternally recurring abuse by

those who rule over the little people which is represented by the
man with the hoe. The was described as having no hope of
happiness as he watches his life slip by.

The man with the hoe was said to have:

Shown a lasting emptiness on his face

He was described to have a back with the burden of the world.

The brother of the ox

A face filled with emptiness shows no emotion, the hopelessness is

clear, its as if this person has accepted his fate in this world. The
burden on his back, at least to me, gives the appearance of posture
problems from overworking. Being the brother to the ox is
self-explanatory since the man with the hoe toils the land with this
animal. This state is hopeless, it completely ignores the meaning of
being in this world because it is a life of nothing but backbreaking
work.

The blame falls on those in power as far as the author is concerned,

the sad state of the man with the hoe is seen all over the world to
this day as workers struggle to make ends meet as their corporate
masters become wealthier and wealthier, but like in the past, these
events do end, as people clamor for fairness in wealth distribution,
it is up to the rulers to make a move, will they divide the wealth or
face a revolution.

The poet sees the masters, rulers, and lords as the cause of all the
problems, he sees them as being responsible for the state of the
condition or state of the man with the hoe. These people operate in
a slightly parasitic existence. There is nothing wrong when
someone becomes rich, the problem is when they begin to control
the system and write the rules in favor of their interest as it is
today.

Here are some examples of hidden abuses by large companies:

Globalization

International trade organizations like the WTO

International lending companies like the IMF and the World Bank

They facilitate global abuse of desperate workers eager to have a

decent existence in this very complicated human society we have
all created.

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?
Ans: As a child of the future,I will personally be erupted with the
statement of the poet. It clearly illustrates the confusion of the poet
to the 'children of the future'. I will prove to all that as a children of
the future, I will make it possible. A future everybody is wishing for
and definitely, is dreaming for that seems quite impossible. But on
my future, I will make it the best whenever possible.
7. Who are the modern "man with the hoe"?
Ans:A Man with the hoe is a social protest poem, they are
protesting from their leader, and they thought that god is being
unfair of creating, he create powerful and powerless, and they want
to give back the light that the light they give up. for me, the modern
man with the hoe are the peasants:)

8. How does the society treat them?

Ans: They treat them cruely. Thay are not considerate for what the
'man with the hoe' feels. Even if 'the man with the hoe' is exhausted
and already dehumanized they don't care.