Most of the chores in the first 14 lines are associated popularly with "woman['s] work," but two are not. What do these exceptions reveal about the situation of the speaker?
These exceptions reveal that the speaker is doing what she has to do in order to live. She's got to do what she's got to do and I'm guessing that she is a slave because she has so much work to do and also she has to pick cotton. Most likely she is treated harshly and she just wants to leave the life she has right now and she reveals this when she says, "storm, blow me from here with your fiercest wind let me float across the sky 'til i can rest again." She wants to rest and at least rest every now and than but the sad truth is that she can't.
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