DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:   "What Work Is" by Philip Levine Originally read:Years and Years ago Originally Printed for this Blog Project: January 23, 2013 More information about the Poet: Philip Levine So this is one of those poems where I couldn't pass up on when it came up in one of the daily poem places.  I read this poem years ago, and it's one of my favorite poems.  I wrote down notes here, but what I always remembered about the poem is the tone.  The tone shifts from exasperated from angry. However, when I reread this poem for this blog, I wondered where the direction of the exasperation and anger went to. So I write down for the poem, "The tone of these line brought me in, Automatically prophetic and stating --> or trying to bring the reader in."  These are the lines, "if you're / old enough to read this you know what / work is, although you may not do it."  Current me believes that the first lines solidify the "you...