Edgar Lee Masters Essays

jolly faces of the townspeople in the small town of Spoon River, every last one of them harbors a secret they would kill to keep hidden. Spoon River Anthology is a collection of multiple stories written by Edgar Lee Masters, depicting a small town and the lives of its people behind closed doors. Masters progresses the story by revealing each person's dirty secrets one by one, while the reader connects each individual epitaph. As the reader learns more about the characters, it becomes clearer what each

In his statement, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” John Muir suggests that all aspects of existence are interconnected. This quote represents Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. In Spoon River, the epitaphs of the deceased reveal the profound interconnectedness of the townspeople’s lives. The revelations evoke a range of emotions as one uncovers the impact individuals have had on one another. Spoon River Anthology exposes

Analyzing the Themes of Poems by Edgar Lee Masters Edgar Lee Masters is well known for his great collection “Spoon River Anthology”, a series of over one hundred inscriptions on tombstones, a discussion over the residents of the fictional small town of Spoon River. One of the reasons for these poems is for others to understand the life of small town areas and those of rural areas. Each of the poems contains a short text that honors a deceased person; they speak about things much expected by others

life have a common thread. This quote represents the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. In the town of Spoon River, those who are buried in a graveyard in the town have their stories shared through their epitaph. Those who read them come to realize they are all connected in some way. This creates a lot of different emotions as you come to realize who has affected who. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a novel that reveals the underlying secrets within the town of Spoon River

Secrets revealed at death destroy towns and people. In the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, citizens tell their deepest secrets in their epitaph. An epitaph is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died. By reading the epitaphs of the people of Spoon River, readers can associate them with one another. In Spoon River Anthology, the characters are connected through webs that lead them back to each other. An example is Minerva Jones and Busch Wegley, the men

“What goes around comes around” (anonymous) is a common adage explaining that whatever you put into the world, positive or negative, will always find a way back. The stories of Spoon River written by Edgar Lee Masters consist of many epitaphs which show each citizen's true colors and reveal their lives throughout their town. Spoon River is a collection of stories, which when blended together, create a multitude of life-changing events, including many deaths. A multitude of unexpected circumstances

karma and its impact on our lives. In Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters explores this theme through the experiences of Butch Weldy, Dora Williams, and Dr. Meyers. Weldy’s life of crime leads to a harsh reckoning in death, while Williams’ unfulfilled desires and regrets are revealed after her death. Doctor Meyers, with his professional failings and moral shortcomings, faces his own form of karma. This essay will examine how Masters portrays karma through these characters, highlighting the consequences

What would a satisfying tale be without consisting of a moral lesson and some entertainment? As one can notice in The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, there are many tales told that consist of both values. In this book various different pilgrims are on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas á Becket. As they travel they are told to tell four tales, two on the way there and two on the way back. The pilgrim that presents the tale with the best moral education and the greatest

The author focuses on the black and feminine experience of the black women in the white society. Her feminine identity as well as her radical identity has molded her vision of the city. More important was Brook’s objective treatment of issues such as identity Crisis and racism. In the collection of A Street in Bronzeville, the characters range from the death-in-life figure of a woman in Obituary for a living lady. The unnamed woman in the poem, a person Brooks knew well. As a child she was decently

Many poems about the civil war convey universal themes of the time. Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind” is no different. The poem,“War is kind” written by Stephen Crane(1871-1900) has three themes common to civil war literature: Warfare, Home, and Patriotism. This poem’s overall theme is about how war destroys families conversely to the title of “War is Kind” or the many times which Crane says “War is Kind”. The three themes of warfare, home, and patriotism are displayed in many pieces of Civil War

Adultery: The Ultimate Form of Betrayal “The Forsaken Wife” by Elizabeth Thomas and “Verses Written on her Death-bed at Bath to her Husband in London” by Mary Monck both portray wives dealing with their husbands’ suspected, or known, adultery. Elizabeth Thomas’s utterly painful poem details a wife attempting to reconcile with the fact her husband has been unfaithful, the message of the poem being that although the husband doesn’t deserve the wife; she is going to “remain true”. The first stanza

In Terry Alford’s novel “Prince Among Slaves” there were many people that strived to bring Ibrahima back to Africa, during this time he also worked to free his children. The role of letter writing had an impact on the course of the book and each person connected the direction of Ibrahima’s journey. A former prince, Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, was captured through an ambush due to his lost to the Hebohs and is now a slave (23). When Ibrahima was 19, he had led his first victory, which earned him some

essential freedom is to him and fellow slaves. By telling first hand accounts about slavery, Douglass shows how unfounded Fitzhugh’s narrative is. Fitzhugh spins a biased narrative that speaks of how well-cared-for the slaves are, how nurturing slave masters are to their slaves, and how slaves are almost never physically abused. Maybe Transition? Slaves were often given the bare minimum of food and

In the satirical short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses juxtaposition to compare the Father Gonzaga and his foil, the doctor, to greater characterize Father Gonzaga show his faults by placing their beliefs and characteristics in comparison with one another to highlight their differences. In the story Marquez uses the character of the doctor in contrast with Father Gonzales in multiple ways. The first comparison between the two characters is their

Have you had a loved one that worried you sick? It was a another day at school, and Konnor can’t wait till the bell rings to go home. Today Konnor is going to go play some basketball at the lower lake in Eureka, IL. He is going to go with his older sibling Kaleb, and his cousin Austin. The basketball hoops are a little rusty and old, but the hoops are still adequate to play and shoot into. It was a long day of hard work at school, but Konnor got through it! “RING!” the school bell went off

or hard, depending on their “master.” Some slaves worked on farms and performed extremely hard feats of work, but others would do house work for their master that was not as hard but more time consuming. Now these slaves were like servants, but they are considered property, unlike a servant that is a free person. Since slaves were considered property their master could do anything they to them, like branding them just for not doing as told. Of course not all masters were violent with their slaves

All my life, I have heard that eating right and exercising is important for our body, but I hardly ever learnt anything related to taking care of our mental health. It is indeed very essential for us to eat healthy, though I believe that having positive mental health is equally important too. Most of us here desire to lead a healthy and a balanced life, even if we say or not. Well, who would even want to suffer from superfluous health problems or stress about worthless things all day long? A healthy

become very handsome. My coat had grown fine and soft and was shiny black. I had one white foot, and a pretty white star on my forehead. It was time for my breaking in. My master, Squire Gordon, first started with the cold hard steel bit. He put it in my mouth and it was awful. Then came the saddle which was not half as bad. My master was very gentle with me and soon began to ride me until I got used to it. Then the horseshoes, which made my feet feel quite heavy. After that, came the collar. It is heavy

“There is no such thing as an ordinary human.” The 9th Doctor once said. Doctor Who is a show that originated in the United Kingdom and has been on for many years with different actors playing The Doctor. The Doctor is the only constant character because the rest are companions, who come and go throughout the series. The Doctor is Time Lord, which is a smaller group of the Gallifreyans from Gallifrey, his home planet. Time Lords are loomed, meaning that they are artificially created, and go to The

is attained only through the separation from a pack mentality. Throughout the narrative, Buck is a part of a group of dogs serving men. When John Thornton cuts Buck loose from the brutal torture of his masters, he is also setting Buck free from a pack mentality. Even when Buck serves his new master Thornton with total devotion and love, he has a growing attraction to the wild. His eagerness for a solitary life in the wild overcomes him eventually that takes him back to the wild. At this juncture of