Question

What has one to eat if one doesn't have money , according to the poet in money madness
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Answer 1

Explanation:

if one does not have money they must eat dirt. so we get to know this by the sentence "and if I have no money they will give me a little bread so I do not die but they will make me eat dirt with it I shall have to eat dirt I shall have to eat dirt.

Answer 2

Money Madness

According to the poet in Money Madness, one has to eat dirt and only dirt if he doesn't have money .

Explanation:

• Money Madness by D.H. Lawrence is an ironic poem where the modern poet satirises the craving of man for money.
• The poet terms this desire for money as a collective madness that has wrecked and ruined the general ethics of man.
• Man is no longer a 'human' instead he is a money mint.
• His status, worth and value are all determined by the money he has earned and not his virtues .
• If a person does not have money he is treated with contempt and left to die.
• The main ingredient for a poor man to eat is 'dirt'.
• Dirt stands as a metaphor for something cheap or worthless.
• Thus a man without money gets nothing to eat but dirt. If he is given a piece of bread that too is smeared with dirt to prove his worthlessness.

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