Excerpt From the poem:
Over whom shall I weep first?
Over the burned ones?
Over those beyond recognition?
Over those who have been crippled?
Or smashed?
I weep for them all.
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Morris Rosenfeld: Sweatshop Poetry
Teaching and discussing the conditions of factories is important detail of the Industrial Age. The poems written by Morris Rosenfeld describes the factory experience with true emotion. Read In The Factory. Morris Rosenfeld is an unsung muckraker and fits with any conversation of Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair. The Jewish Daily Forward, published his poem about the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Triangle Fire Verse.
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