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Edgar Lee MastersAlthough Spoon River is literally a village, the use of the word in the title suggests something provincial and naïve in the speaker’s atheism, as though the “arguments/Of the infidels” in...
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Edgar Lee MastersButch Weldy is blinded by a workplace accident. As he testifies in court about the incident, he is most likely seeking compensation from his employer for his injuries. The "him" in the poem is the...
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Edgar Lee MastersIn this poem which challenges us about our own ideas of life and suffering, the voice of Lucina Matlock is presented to us with a notable lack of literary devices, perhaps to convey the no-nonsense...
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Edgar Lee MastersThe speaker is a married woman who has had what some might call a difficult life. She had a 70 year marriage, and had 12 children, but 8 of them died before she was 60. She did a great deal of...
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Edgar Lee MastersEdgar Lee Masters is an American Modernist, a term which refers to authors who wrote primarily during the 1900-1950 time period. As such, he often wrote about the disillusionment that many...
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Edgar Lee MastersAll of the speakers of the poems in Spoon River Anthology are dead. They are speaking their own epitaphs, essentially speaking from beyond the grave. Lucinda Matlock has lived a full life. Her...