The Independent . EAT! FOR THE WORKS SAKE, EAT!Employers nowadays find that it pays to feed their workers well, and the factory girls are learning to prefer bean soup to sodas fc-::-t-::^c >-;:-< ^-tt-^ ^-tt-< v-;t-v v-rr-r-rr-< gr ! A r. A POET OF THE PEOPLE N THE SHAFT T >«> •<-<I ¥ MM ? < 1T BY WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Wilfrid Wilson Gibson is foremost among the younger poets in his portrayal of the life of labor. There is anew meaning in his treatment of old themes as there is a new rhythm in his verse. By the sentimentalist povertyand toil have been used to evoke t
The Independent . EAT! FOR THE WORKS SAKE, EAT!Employers nowadays find that it pays to feed their workers well, and the factory girls are learning to prefer bean soup to sodas fc-::-t-::^c >-;:-< ^-tt-^ ^-tt-< v-;t-v v-rr-r-rr-< gr ! A r. A POET OF THE PEOPLE N THE SHAFT T >«> •<-<I ¥ MM ? < 1T BY WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Wilfrid Wilson Gibson is foremost among the younger poets in his portrayal of the life of labor. There is anew meaning in his treatment of old themes as there is a new rhythm in his verse. By the sentimentalist povertyand toil have been used to evoke tears; by the reformer they have been made the basis of bitter attacks uponsociety; while authors more aloof have found them picturesque or humorous. But Gibson sees the workingmennot merely as objects of compassion or victims of injustice, not as quaint or comic characters but as real humanbeings; as individuals not lumped together as a class or a problem. He has shown the poetry in prosaic livesand that without esthetic falsification or exaggeration. He is a modern realist, describing things as he seesthem, but then he can see more than the rest of us. He does not avoid the use of recent and colloquial words,but
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