Inoculation by Susan Donnelly

This poem was read in class earlier this week and was very confused about what this poem was trying to say. The structure just doesn't make sense to me which in turn makes me even more confused with the poem. Even with the class discussion I did not understand what the purpose of the poem was. The only thing that I only really did understand that the author was talking about a histrorical event and people, but I never understood why this was specific and why the author wrote about those poeple and event. There was the end of the poem that I actually I did enjoy. I can't really explain why I like it some much, but I think the poem would be incomplete if the last stanza was not their. I just don;t understand the purpose of the poem, all I know it has something to do with small pox, which is a deadly disease and some sort of slaves.