Early America Poem

The poem ends: “And yet it seems to be your own hand / Which turns the volume higher?” (34-35) The poet says even tho you may acknowledge this crisis you don't want to believe, see or hear it, one wants it to go away. So one turns up the volume so you don't have to face the price of this commercial world we live in and hear the cries for help in poverty. The exclusive wealthy control almost all of the money in America. There are extremely affluent and extremely impoverished in this country. When poverty tries to reach out for fairness, the wealthy refuse to hear any complaints and simply keep shouting louder and louder that this is the way it always has been and always will be.
As a conclusion, the theme of this poem is how the America has