Arturo giovannitti poems for kids

This powerful poem by Arturo Giovannitti captures the horrific lynching of labor activist Frank Little.

Giovannitti's poem "The Walker," in which he recounted the tormented footsteps of a prisoner, brought him comparisons to Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.

To the memory of Frank Little hanged at Midnight I Six men drove up to his house at midnight, and woke the poor woman who kept it.

Giovannitti, the Ameri-can, has a potent voice, a visionary and solemn eye, liberal meters, a tone recall-ing Whitman, but tempered by more modern experiences.

This volume comprises the collected poems that Arturo Giovannitti wrote in English.

To the memory of Frank Little hanged at Midnight I Six men drove up to his house at midnight, and woke the poor woman who kept it.!

Arturo Giovannitti

Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist and poet

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Giovannitti (Italian pronunciation:[dʒovanˈnitti]; 1884–1959) was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet. He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and as a defendant in a celebrated trial caused by that event.

Early life

Arturo Giovannitti was born January 7, 1884, in Ripabottoni in what is now the Province of Campobasso, Italy, at the time part of the Abruzzi but now part of Molise.

This is an excerpt of one of his poems called 'The Bum'.

He immigrated to Canada in 1900 and, after working in a coal mine and railroad crew, began preaching in a Presbyterian mission. He soon came to the United States, where he studied at Union Theological Seminary. Although he did not graduate, he ran rescue missions for Italians in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh.

He also began writing for the weekly newspaper of the Italian Socialist Federation. In 1911, he beca