Minerva Jones Poem Analysis

In the poem,"Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters ,he writes about the sad life of an old crippled lady who was hated. I learned that this person is a writer of poetry and isn 't very pleasant looking from how Masters describes her.The person she speaks about in the poem are "Butch" Weldy and Doctor Meyers, who have different poems of their own as well. "Butch" Weldy is the one that hunts down Minerva (Goddess of Wisdom) and Doctor Meyers is the one that attempts to save her.The poet lets us know that small-town America is very judgmental because you can say that those who were wise were the ones being judged("hunts") by their appearance and their beliefs.But if it were literal, then why would Weldy want to hunt Minerva for no reason? Also why was Doctor Meyers polite and not like the people of the streets?Why is Weldy nicknamed "Butch"?

In the poem "Butch Weldy" by Edgar Lee Masters, it seems that "Butch" from the last poem is now a worker for a canning company.One time though, he gets critically injured from someone leaving a blow-fire going and is then set to court to testify where he then realizes that it was one of the servants of the man in …show more content…
Roy was simply attempting to have a truce with Richard Bandle but when Roy pays him a visit he 's let into the home of Richard Bandle where the wife lets him in and slams the door when he enters and screams as if she was being rape in which she wasn 't.He 's then taken to court for this and testifies that she faked it but the Supreme Court didn 't believe him. Roy learns that if the Supreme Court had just a single piece of evidence or secret during any case that it 'd be the greatest court in the world.The Supreme Court couldn 't determine which one of them was lying but, based off a sexist bias, they believed the woman more than the man because the man is more masculine than the