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  • I wouldn't call it a poem, but anyway, for better or worse, here it is:- I would rather be poor and free ... than be a comfortable slave I would rather be foolish and free .. than an indoctrinated slave I would rather be prepared and free ..than a mercenary slave I would rather be parochial and free .. than a cosmopolitan slave I would rather be hungry and free .. than a suckling slave I would rather be jobless and free ... than a bureaucratic slave. I would rather be dead and free .. than a subsisting slave. I think the meaning of it is really obvious. The first two lines mean that comfort means nothing if you don't have freedom. Intelligence means nothing if you don't have freedom of thought. And so on. It doesn't really need interpretation, because it is just saying what it means.
  • The speaker would rather live knowing that he has made his own way in life and lives by his rules, yet suffer, rather than be subjugated and comfortable.

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