Hear America Singing By Jo Goodwin Parker

Working poor is lack of foods. Working poor is lack of shelter. Working poor is working extremely hard. And working poor is living under the minimum standards of life. As I was growing up, I thought that I know it all about the poverty and the working poor but I was wrong, poverty is unimaginable and indescribable. Jo Goodwin Parker’s article, “What is Poverty?”, mentioned “Poverty is being tired”. I completely agree with her stance because poverty creates working poor class and it is never get tired of creating more suffering for people. Working poor is the outcome of poverty. In Jo Goodwin Parker’s article, “What is Poverty?”, Parker claims that “poverty is remembering”. What she trying to say is that she was not a person who born along with the poverty, perhaps, she became familiar with it later in her life. Other words, being listed in the working poor class was not her expectation. To Parker, working poor means waking up in the early, asking for help, and moving into a black future. I agree with her stance because working poor is unpredictable, and it is hard to get out, once you are in. Likewise, when you’re listed as the working poor, no …show more content…
In Walt Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing”, Whitman demonstrates the working poor people are singing while working with melodious songs. The definitions of working poor in this poem are depicted as the hard-workers enjoy their work time by singing loudly. Working poor in this poem represents the hope, the dream, the future, and the joyful melodies. If poverty makes those people became miserable, they would have never sing these merry songs. “Each singing what belongs to her, and no none else,” defines how those different people, different lifestyle, but the same class becoming united by their hopeful songs. Moreso, working people in this poem makes people feel relaxed because no matter what happens, they are still moving on with their