The_Golf_Links

The Golf Links Child’s Play' In Sarah N. Cleghorn’s poem “The Golf Links” the speaker is Cleghorn. She is making an observation about the way her society works. She is showing the reader the way the young children must work in factories, while the factory owners or big business men get to play. By using phrases that invoke images Cleghorn opens the eyes of her readers and the world around her. Even through the poem is only four lines long it is filled with images that make a huge impact on the reader. Every line of the poem summons an image in the mind of the reader. The first line “The golf links lie so near the mill” shows the reader that the golf course, or the play ground of grown men, is right next to the factories where the children work. The next line “That almost every day” allows the reader to see that every day, six or seven days a week, the children are in the factory working their days away. The third line “The laboring children can look out” brings to mind reader, children, men, poem, line, work, play, golf, factories, phrases, out, images, every, cleghorn, way, society, opens, next, mind, making, makes, look, lives, lines, image, grown, four, factory, eyes, enjoying, doing, days, day, course