The poem “Carpenter's Complaint” by Edward Baugh was about a carpenter who wanted to build a coffin for his friend; however, the son of the deceased “maaga-foot bwoy” wanted another man, Mr. Belnavis, to build his father a fancier and prettier coffin. He was very angry because he had built his friend's house, but not his coffin. The carpenter described Mr Belnavis as a "big-bellied crook who doesn't know it like a chisel" and who only got the job to make the coffin because he was a bigwig. We knew he was at a bar because of line 11 "Let's get together next, Miss Fergie." He praised his friend's ability to drink, stand up straight and go home "cool, cool, cool." The carpenter allegedly built the coffin for free because the man was his friend. He believed that the university had turned the “maaga-foot bwoy” into a fool, and it had burned him badly. The poem “Coolie Mother” by David Dabydeen was about a hard-working coolie mother named Jasmattie. She was broke and her house was so small it was compared to a shoebox. Jasmattie did whatever work she could find, including beating clothes, weeding the garden, chopping wood, and feeding poultry. She worked for every line of the body4. “For such a body and such a body and every damn body” suggested that she was frustrated and working for everyone; even those she might not have liked. She had to fetch water from the Canje River because they had no running water. She worked until her “foot cracked” and “her hand was cut off,” and curses came out of her mouth. She was sick because she was coughing up blood, but going to a doctor would cut into her savings, so instead she crushed the blood into the ground. She saved her “slow penny” because in the end they added up. Middle of paper... It made us realize that Jasmattie's lifestyle had shaped who she was and made her a determined woman who knew what she wanted and how to get it. Jasmattie's life was not at all glamorous, but very hard. In “Carpenter's Complaint” by Edward Baugh, we were able to understand the lifestyle of the carpenter when he eulogized his deceased friend using a similar line 15 “So stand straight as a plumb line” . This showed us that the carpenter liked to drink because he loved his friend's ability to drink a lot and still be able to walk home normally. Hyperbole was used in lines 14 and 15 "When he drinks old Brown and Coxs'n into the ground". Here he was also praising his friend's drinking abilities, however, one can't literally drink to the ground, so that was an exaggeration. The literary elements that Baugh used in this poem showed us that the carpenter liked to drink.