What themes do you find
in the poem explain which theme you think is most important

the words "strangest" and "unusual" suggest (:

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

and

"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"