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‘To be of use’ by Marge Piercy depicts one speaker’s preference to be around those who work hard and understand the importance of perseverance. The poem takes the reader through metaphorical comparisons between oxen, water buffalo, and seals.
8 mar 2021 · For the C21 Women's Ensemble's Poetry Project, member Joan Pederson performs Marge Piercy's "To be of use." Writer and activist Piercy has written over seventeen collections of...
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. Source: Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy Alfred A. Knopf 1982 A Thought: Let the value of what...
By Marge Piercy. The people I love the best. jump into work head first. without dallying in the shallows. and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals. bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
“To Be of Use” is a poem that focuses on the value of hard work, the meaningfulness of that work, and the necessity of perseverance. In the poem’s opening, Piercy’s speaker discusses the “people [they] love the best” (Line 1), expressly detailing that those who work hard, even when the situations are adversarial, are admirable.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. ____ People who stand in a line to pass water in buckets when a fire must be put out (or "people who submerge in the task...
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. From Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (Alfred A. Knopf, 1982). Used with permission.
