Spoon River Anthology

Love,Life, And Liberty “A discussion on the theme of life in, Spoon River Anthology” There are many reasons and themes in spoon river. The 3 poems I picked had many life events that would go hand in hand in what happens in life of present day. My favorite 3 was Constance Hately, Kindsey Keene, and Benjamine Lantier. All of these poems were about important life events. Some were very good others were very poor. In all of these poems they prove what life is like and how beautiful but also go hard it can be. In every single one they give a statement about what they should have done differently or what they would have liked to do. First off Constance Hately was chosen because she enjoyed life and she always lived it to the fullest. She never just let life pass her bye she took charge and made sure that life was all that it should be. She did have a few things that held her down. She was taking care of her siblings since her folks had gone. They never were a burden to her she felt grateful that she had the opportunity to make sure they did great things with their lives. She did fall ill many years later and she speaks of the times that she so misses taking care of them. And now she will not get to see them all grow up so fast as she has…

In Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, each of the people from Fiddler Jones to Mrs. Reece all believed that they had one life to live. For certain people, this caused their lives to be better, as they didn’t want to spend it all in regret. For others, this belief caused them deep regret, and they felt as though they had wasted everything they had. They were too afraid to live, they never did. Expecting the unforeseen also played quite a bit in whether their life was good or bad. You can…

Marriage in Spoon River Anthology Fairy tales often depict marriage as the answer to one’s problems. Hollywood’s portrayal of marriage is that it’s full of love and consists of a happily ever after. The knight in shining armor saves the princess, and they ride off into the sunset, instantly in love. This unrealistic idea about marriage is disproved by Edgar Lee Masters; his book of poems, Spoon River Anthology, proves marriage to be quite the opposite. Spoon River Anthology tells the tale of…

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…

Humanities, EDSITEment, https://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/introduction-modernist-poetry. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018. Leenaars, Antoon A., and Susanne Wenckstern. "Sylvia Plath: A Protocol Analysis of Her Last Poems." CCC Library, Taylor & Francis, eds.a.ebscohost.com.cccneb.idm.oclc.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&sid=cdcd5da8-39dc-48f6-a977-1c6f5ac647c3%40sessionmgr4008. Accessed 21 Feb. 2018. Plath, Sylvia. "Daddy." Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation,…

Ruler Before receiving any materials, we had to decide which items were going to be our dependent, independent, and constant variables. Independent Variables: Baking Soda, Alka-Seltzer, and Mentos Dependent Variable: How much the balloon inflates / Ability to actually inflate Controlled Variables: vinegar, yeast, ballons, same container, same measuring tape, and same measuring spoons. Once receiving our materials, we automatically divided the amount of baking soda, mentos, alka-seltzer, and…

Prosperous is the definition of my name, little did my parents or I know that it wasn’t going to be earned easily. I am the child of a refugee family that migrated to America fourteen years ago to escape threats of murder at the vicious hands of the Taliban. Boarding a plane and landing in an unknown city with unknown people was my new home. Upon my arrival in this big country with the large populated cities and bright lights left me gripping my father’s shirt tighter. Living in this…

Bloodied Snow of the Fallen October 10th, 1943 , near the forest off of a Nazi controlled town of Warsaw...it should have been easy... Life, such a fickle thing to live with, sometimes it goes well and others...this time, it went terribly wrong. The cold October night was a beautiful sight to see, stars peppered the sky as the moon’s light bathed the forest. I felt a cold shiver go through my body as I slumped against a tree, holding my abdomen in pain, wondering if this was it, if my life…

SOME LOVE WE CAN NEVER HAVE We live in a world where there had been an old debate of whether love listens to mind or heart. It depends on the person, the motive, the truth in the love. But still sometimes we wonder our minds around every possibility how we can win in love and every time we fall for some angel and act dumb. We are one among the sea of people in this world waiting for their love story to be drafted, edited and get applied in life. Then we spot someone in the crowd and our mind…

with the name first, but it surely does fit our feelings for the town. Growing up in Tillamook, I start to notice more and more of the horrifying damage the rain water and rivers do to our town. According to the Tillamook County Department of Community Development, "DO NOT ENTER FLOOD WATER!" flood…