ABSTRACT
Lord D’Ysquith does not understand the poor and feels it is necessary to inform us of his views. He sings that the poor seem to be poor because of “nothing but stubbornness.” The musical is set in England in the year 1909, and the song seems to show the audience his view as a member of the idle rich who arrogantly sings that the only poor people who are “rising above” with “work they love” are “beggars, pickpockets, and whores.”
