Anna Imroth
Anna Imroth - meaning Summary
One Unlucky Factory Girl
The poem stages the aftermath of a factory fire through clinical directions for laying out a corpse and the subdued grief of a family. It contrasts the survival of others with the single girl who "wasn't lucky" in jumping to safety. The final line implicates both fate and industrial negligence, compressing social critique and human loss into a brief, unsentimental scene.
Read Complete AnalysesCross the hands over the breast here--so. Straighten the legs a little more--so. And call for the wagon to come and take her home. Her mother will cry some and so will her sisters and brothers. But all of the others got down and they are safe and this is the only one of the factory girls who wasn't lucky in making the jump when the fire broke. It is the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes.
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