According to the selection of worms of earth against the lions the governments slowness in reacting to the rebellion was partly
due to contempt for all wills and cobbs and jacks and black nailed louts what effect does the author achieve by interpreting the officials attitude in this way?
The author was trying to convey the apathetic attitude of the rich towards the workingman.
Explanation:
The terms used by the author highlighted the negative ways the rich French class and the ruling class viewed the poor workingman. The term louts for example means an uncouth or aggressive person while the term Jack was used to describe the ordinary man who rendered services to the rich.
The author's use of these terms would help the reader to see how lowly the government thought of the poor to the extent that they failed to consider them and were taken unawares at the peasants' revolt.
The poem shows the use of imagery such as “It rains, and the wind is never weary”, “My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past” and “Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.” Metaphor: It is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between the objects that are different
