Working People's Poetry

Stephen Duck's poem spoke to many people. It is a poem for the working class, for those who put everything they have into their work and into their families. He describes the back-breaking never ending farm work that must be done. It is almost a bleak thought that the person can never stop and that it is an unclimbable hill of work which they will never reach the top of. It would be very difficult to be a farmer, much more difficult than any other profession of that time I believe. At least we all know that we will have the weekends and holidays to rest and spend time with our families. A farmer does not have that, they must work all year round without a day off because their animals and crops need them.
I was honestly fine with this poem until I read Mary Collier's poem "The Woman's Labour". Once I saw this poem the feminist inside of me went "hell ya what is this guys problem?" But now I think that both parties are correct. Yes woman work so incredibly hard and they have no recognition for their work but I think that this is a separate issue from Stephen Duck's poem. I understand Mary Collier's anger at society and the consensual misguided view of 'woman's work' in that time but I do not think that that is what Stephen Duck was talking about. I believe that he was simply writing about the experiences of a farmer and the tiresome way that they must live each day. His poem was not taking away from the work that woman do he simply was writing about what men do. Do not get me wrong though, woman had so much work to do in those times that there work never ended just the same as their husbands.