Spoon River

Loss is inevitable, there is a time in everyone's life that this pain will be felt, yet dealing with it shows the true character of the person. The book of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters displays the true meaning of that statement. The characters throughout explain the many struggles faced in their life, all the way until their death. In The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, the main character is doomed from the very beginning. He demonstrates the life of an immigrant, poor, nasty, brutish. He

(Discussion on theme “people often sleep with the enemy” in “Spoon River Anthology”) Creative title (will come back when feeling creative) For reasons unknown the people of Spoon River have continued to make the same mistake over, and over, and over again. The people of Spoon River have a nasty habit of sleeping with the enemy. That is to say they surround themselves with those that seek to harm them, both mentally and physically. Some examples of this sort of behavior is Loise Smith, Dora Williams

compass of your soul, 11. Your soul takes fire, 12. And in the conflagration of your soul 13. The evil of the world is lighted up and made clear-- 14. Be thankful if in that hour of supreme vision 15. Life does not fiddle. When viewing over Spoon

Spoon River Analysis Zilpha Marsh Of all the characters in Spoon River, only one has the key ingredient that makes the book complete; that person is Zilpha Marsh. Even though Zilpha is mentioned only once within the book, she represents a controversial issue debated everywhere and can be related to people in real life. Zilpha represents mystery, supernatural, and spiritual beings, every word that is written about her suggest a deeper and more complex meaning; her entire character permeates an

In Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, Margaret Fuller Slack is an aspiring writer, whose notions of future greatness are foiled by, on a surface level, her marriage, and children. As a result, Margaret is bitter, resentful, and accusatory. In actuality, Margaret and her notion of personal privilege destroy her future. Masters’ poem is a cautionary tale regarding entitlement and laziness, an acknowledgment of the necessity of personal responsibility, and an example of a wasted life. Masters

Nellie Clark, Nancy Knapp, Mrs. George Reece Throughout certain peoples lives, life can be a bit harder than that of others. In the book “Spoon River Anthology” By: Edgar Lee Masters many stated that life wasn’t very easy for them or for some other person in their life. These characters usually had very rough lives and or had rough deaths. In the the section of Fiddler Jones to Mrs. Reece, three characters that I chose were Nellie Clark, Nancy Knapp, and Mrs. George Reece. For them, life was not

author is trying to explain, such as what Matlock loves, displayed in the quote: …I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick, I made the garden, and for the holiday Rambled over the fields where they sang the larks, And by Spoon River gathering many a shell, And many a flower and medicinal weed— Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys. (10-15). These are the little things that mean so much and make

such as family or even community. They believe their own problems to be far too great to “waste” time on helping others, which is exactly the common schema Edgar Lee Masters refuted in his poem “Lois Spears” as a part of his collection of poems, Spoon River Anthology. Lois Spears is a woman who, despite having to live without sight, is incredibly happy with how she lived her life. She dedicated herself to serving others and joyfully did so; her story did not convey an ounce of spite or bitterness

diction, word choice and imagery in Fiddler Jones by Masters expresses the seemingly inherent joy of a lackadaisical man as well as the value of perspectives and the ability to posit happiness over fortune and land. As many of Master’s poems in his Spoon River Anthology, the title “Fiddler Jones” refers to a man who is not only a

The movie The Sixth Sense and the book Spoon River Anthology delve into life and death through different ways but share the same themes and ideas. The common themes and ideas in both are: do not leave unfinished business, learn to face problems not run away from them or take the easy way out and lastly, listen to other people because they want what is best for you. The Sixth Sense and Spoon River Anthology share a common theme. The theme is finish what you started so you have no regrets. In The Sixth