"Little Feet" was written by a Chilean author who writes under the pseudonym Gabriela Mistral. She began to publish her works in the early 1900s. The themes of her poems are most often love, death, betrayal, sadness and loss.
Mistral worked as an educator and took up the cause of mistreated children and education as a Director of Primary Education for the Chilean government. During travels to Europe and her native country of Chile, she noticed the mistreatment and neglect of children.
In the poem "Little Feet", the main idea is that the society allows children to walk around neglected and hurting from a lack of basic resources such as shoes so that their little feet do not hurt. Further, she writes that often people ignore the children or just look the other way so they do not have to see that they hurt from the lack of basic resources.
Children’s little feet, jewels of suffering,
how can those who pass you not see!
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