The Poem Minerva Jones

From the Spoon River Anthology, the poem "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters, in the epitaph, the speaker introduced a woman named Minerva Jones who is a poetess. Assuming by the speaker, "Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street" Minerva Jones is not quite admired by folks, she is mocked and insulted by others. It is indisputable that Minerva Jones had a rocky relationship with others. Throughout the text, the speaker not only discusses but mentions others involved in her tragic incident. It states, "And all the more when "Butch" Weldy Captured me after a brutal hunt./ He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyer;/ And I sank into death..." the reader can deduce it was involuntary touched, which came pregnancy than later on an illegal abortion. To conclude the poem, it seems to be her last wishes are for someone to gather into a book the verses she wrote. Them being, "I thirsted so for love!/ I hungered so for life!" Minerva Jones was conscious of the …show more content…
Meyers” by Edgar Lee Masters, the speaker mentions a woman recognized as Mrs. Meyers not only wife of Doctor Meyers but an earnestly religious woman. In this text, we are told, from Mrs. Meyer 's point of view her opinion on her husband 's actions. Keeping in mind her religious beliefs, the speaker asserts, “Poor soul so sunk in sin he could not see/ That even trying to help her, as he called it,/ He had broken the law human and divine.” Mrs. Meyers refers to her husband as a poor soul as a way of criticism. Not only this she disrespectfully rejects the fact he was trying to help her, she believes he the law human should 've been put above Minerva 's needs. Overall, from her outlook her husband sinned. Notice when the speaker states, “That he was not at fault for Minerva 's fall” Mrs. Meyers doesn 't view Minerva as a rape victim, she calls her situation a “fall” implicating it was as if Minerva 's pregnancy her fault. I can infer that society 's values are that beliefs can surpass the