In the Midst of Hardship

By Latiff Mohidin

The poem was in free verse which able the author to express his message in a continuous way. The words used were easy to understand and shallow. The poem contains only two stanzas. There were fourteen lines in the first stanza. While the second stanza is the summary of the whole poem. It is a four lines stanza compressed with the whole message of the poem. It is in the third persona, which is the farmer. There is no proper rhyme scheme in the poem. There was no symbolism used and all of the details were in literal form. However, in mere looking in the poem, the message can be clearly seen and absorbed without viewing the author’s background.