Lucinda Matlock Meaning

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The poem ¨Lucinda Matlock¨ by Edgar Lee Masters, in one point of life your going to want someone to spend your life with and grow with that special person. Long years, you're going to see how fast the time pass and you didn't do anything about time and time takes life way and then you're going to love life when it's too late. To see life passes right next too you will hurt at one point because you didn't know how to appreciated what you had.
I choose this poem for many reasons one is she gives a really good message and now everyone can get an idea of what is life.In fact this interest my by the way she says all these impressions with words that can explain so much saying so little. And yet I really like the way she says she was dying and she
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Degenerate sons and daughters. This stanza of the poem makes me hear and feel what she's saying. It's not easy for her to say it's her lasts hopes she has to live and that makes people think that she gives up in an age where if she has straight she could live longer. Like I said you need to love your life no matter what if you have bad days know that more days are coming your way. You will see the sun at the end of the day and everything that went wrong can change at the end.

The part where she says ¨I hear of sorrow and weariness¨ makes me think is a sound of depression caused by a loss. That loss can be by her kids that die before her and she had to go through the eight of them. This makes me think that she puts that at the end of her poem because she has been called by someone to make her feel that its the end and make her give up.

The emotion that this poem has is the part where she says that it takes life to love life. In other words, you need to be thankful for what you have and be sure that you're doing anything to love what you're doing before it's too late. To illustrate she says she had enough when she was 96 and the best times had passed and now she just wants to be done with her life. After the this, she says I can feel how she was tired and she thinks life is too

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