In the poem "Butch Weldy", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about his job and how he fills a tank with gas and one morning it explodes and it blinds him and brakes his 2 legs. The people …show more content…
What i know about hime is that he was a good hearted man, healthy, happy, in comfortable fortune, and a easy doctor. When he tries helping Minerva she dies and the newspapers disgraced him and his wife perished of a broken heart. It shows how society back then was really judgmental to doctors just because someone they tried helping dies in there hands. At the end he says,"pneumonia finished me" which means he died after all that happen. He wasn't a healthy and happy doctor anymore.
In the poem "Mrs.Meyers", by Edgar Lee Masters talks about how he tried helping Minerva from falling. He didn't have fault for what happen. What I know about the speaker is that he tried helping and broke the law human and divine. The newspaper talked about him cruely. The relationship they have in the poems I've read is that they all are talking about the same people in different perspectives. Her opinion was heart broken and didn't want something with him and to love God and keep his commandments. Society's values are bad because they judge even though they don't know the truth of what really happen to