This was an essay for a Work and Society class. Basically, it analyzes literature and work. Specifically poetry and how it can expess core issues surrounding work in North American society.

Work in Literature Of all the forms of literature that exist, poetry is possibly the most difficult to compose. Novelists, playwrights, and essayists have the luxury of space in which to develop their plots, themes and characters. Whole pages and chapters can be dedicated to expressing a singular idea. The poet however, must express the theme, mood, and characters of a poem within a very limited structure. Being the shortest and least verbose of any …

…has not presented much in the way of work-related literature for many reasons, which is discussed above. However, now that society has reached an age where literary merit knows no class boundaries, everyone has access to all forms of literature, and it is evident that no theme, be it as unromantic as work, cannot be presented as beautifully and eloquently written as the sonnet, work can find a legitimate voice in the world of poetry.