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“The Mad Farmer Liberation Front” was written by Wendell Berry. In 1934, Berry was born in Henry County, Kentucky, which this poem, was written in 1973. The title of his poem hints to the audience that our lives can be short, and that everyone will eventually die, no matter how hard we try to stay alive. Wendell Berry is one to contradict himself, he starts with things that would make the average person happy, but then discusses that we do not need certain things to be happy. The speaker clearly has mixed emotions on life itself, which shows he has suffered tragedy in his life. The setting of this poem, however; is unknown, being the fact that Berry makes no connections to his location, except possibly a forest, when he states “...Put your
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