The Cry of the Children

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Our grave-rest is very far to seek"

Children should be enjoying theit chilhood playing and eating without worring for money. However, one can think that I shoud not even write this, for it is too obvious that children must not work, but due to workhouses, in the victorian era was normal to see children working in despicable conditions. 

When I read the poem, I realized that death was common for them that became as normal as sleeping. I guess they live the present because they did not if in the future they survive. It sounds sad to digest, but that was the reality of all those children.

The goverment did not care about their children because the goverment was so focus on making the rich richer that they justify poverty, and they needed poor people to work in those workhouses, and depend on those workhouses to live. Sadly, children also needed to survive. Some might were born in workhouses.