ENGL 1121 Lecture Notes - Merlot, Roller Skates, Working Poor
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Summary notes of the roller skate man and stamps. Roller skate man and stamps, are both about poverty and how individuals face this problem. Yet, in roller skate man, that poor man lost his legs, but he hasn"t lost his hope. He lives his life like other people with his roller skate and never gives up. He face his poverty and dominates his problems. But in the second poem stamps, the poverty of the poor family is on display. They are part of the working poor, they work hard; yet, are judged for their poverty. The poet is embarrassed by her poverty because of how others judge her. In roller skate man, the poet uses water as a symbol and metaphor for the movement of the man; whereas, stamps, uses the checkout in a grocery store as the symbol and metaphor for the shame she feels.
