What is the summary of the poem, "The Man with a Hoe"?need for my research paper

The poem "The Man with the Hoe," by Edwin Markham, was the poet’s comment on labor after observing the painting L'homme à la houe, in which a french peasant toils in the fields. The laborer serves  as a symbol of a hard deprived life as mankind toils in the field.  The man receives no reward for his labor nor does he have much time to rest before being back in the fields.  For the man life is mundane and repetitive.  The man has been equipped with the gifts of the ability to learn and know about philosophy and dreams, but they have been stripped away from him.  He is a prisoner in the fields by something corrupt that uses him like an ox.  The man, who was created in God’s image, falls short he believes of what God had expected for mankind.  The poet questions if this was what was intended by God or has man’s own hand led to this man’s burdened life.

It is interesting to note that the painter, Millet, caused his government and the people around him to be concerned that he was making a Socialist statement about the painting.  In the same way, Markham’s poem was not received well by the Aristocrats.