In the poem "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters, it describes a poetic woman who is from a small village. It highlights that some of the people in that small village made bad remarks about her person that brought her down. In verse number 2 it says,"Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,". This indicates that her life in a small community was not at all great. This poem consists of other people who have some sort of relationship with Jones. For example, "Butch" Weldy, is the person who captures Jones and brutally hurts her. Another person who has a relationship with Jones is Doctor Meyers. This person is who she seeks after getting brutally attacked. Her life depended on this man's care but in the end, he cannot save her. The things this lets us know about the poet's view on small-town American culture and values is that there are things that are simply overlooked. People don't sit down and think how dangerous a small town can really be.
The poem " 'Butch' Weldy" by Edgar Lee Masters is about a man who's life has simply gone down the drain because of a terrible accident in his industrial job. He has suffered brutal injuries due
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His epitaph describes him as a kind man but one night it all came to an end. It was the day that Minerva Jones came into his doorstep. The poem states that Doc Myers tried everything he could to help her but unfortunately he did not do enough. It says, "I tried to help her out—she died—They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me, My wife perished of a broken heart." This is significant because after Doc Meyers couldn't do anything to help Minerva, people disgraced him. Even his wife did not appreciate him anymore. In the end Doc Meyers suffers of an illness that finished him off. What this indicates about the social values at the time was that everything you did affected your
My initial response to the poem was a deep sense of empathy. This indicated to me the way the man’s body was treated after he had passed. I felt sorry for him as the poet created the strong feeling that he had a lonely life. It told us how his body became a part of the land and how he added something to the land around him after he died.
In literature, satire allows readers or viewers to recognize how ridiculous things come about. Satire permits a reader or viewer to express a certain feeling. Usually this feeling evolves around hilarity. Within the satire category, exaggeration and irony exist. Exaggeration usually emphasizes something beyond the original intention. Irony expresses the opposite of the original meaning.
Alan Shapiro is a poet whom uses the sorrowful tragedies that occurred in his lifetime and turns them into beautiful poems in which he greatly expresses through his poetry. Most of his poems symbolize either a type of sorrow or tragic death, and the expressions used throughout his poetry make it noticeable that Alan Shapiro endured a life of hardship and tragedy. While Shapiro was growing up he lost his brother and his sister in which the poem “Sleet” by Alan Shapiro beautifully encompasses his feeling of grief and sorrow due to the loss of his siblings.
Poetry in my opinion is a writer describing, life experience, feelings, things he has seen and perhaps things he would like to see or experience. In Randall Jarrell's poem "The Death of the Bull Turret Gunner," there are many ways this poem maybe interpreted. I really did not understand the poem until I read it a few times. This is what I believe the writer is saying:
In addition to being superficial, Jones's daughter is also a very selfish person. She left her husband, left her 6-month-old daughter, and her dog with her father and took off for Mexico (93). This is a selfish act because she has a total disregard for her father's lifestyle and for the hardship he is going through with his wife in the hospital. She does not consider that this would be an inconvenience for her father. Her selfishness is again shown by the fact that she has a total disrespect for the differences of life styles between she and her father. This is shown in the text readings, "His daughter speaks about the men she has been involved with but no longer cares about," and the previous sentence, " Naturally this pains Jones," speaking of the fact that his daughter was having an affair with an older man (95). She is also selfish in the fact that while her mother is in the hospital almost dying, she is, "walking along the beach in Mexico with two men", and even when her mother comes home from the hospital, she is, " in Mexico wandering disinterestedly through a jewelry shop" (96,98).
She writes a letter to husband, almost instructing him on what to do after her death. Unlike other demure housewives of her time, she acknowledges the risk birthing her child brings by saying, “And when thy loss shall be repaid with gains / Look to my little babes, my dear remains” (107). Bradstreet also approaches a taboo subject by acknowledging that her husband might remarry. Bradstreet does not tread lightly on this subject either by writing, “And if thou love thyself, or loved’st me, / These o protect from step Dames injury” (107). In this poem, Bradstreet faces the possibility of not only the loss of her life but the loss of her husband’s love. Bradstreet challenges Puritan beliefs by showing that she will still be concerned with her earthly life after her
Minerva in The House on Mango Street proves to be a copied image of what her poor Latin neighborhood provides. Her role as a poor married woman is that of lesser superiority than a man, and in efforts to control her unstable relationship situations, she resorts to desperation, only to allow what has been eating away at her back in again. “One day she is through and lets him know enough is enough…then he is sorry and she opens the door again. Same story” (Cisneros 85). A poor society produces poor results, as can be told simply by observing the conditions of an abusive relationship like Minerva’s. The land of the free is where the story takes place, where...
The major poets of the early twentieth century tended to reflect in their poetry elements of the rural, agrarian society in which they lived, much of their work focused on traditional American values and yet foreshadowed the changing character of America, hinting at the factors that ushered the changes of the twentieth century: war, urbanization, technological development, increased mobility, and the emergence of minority voices in culture. Edgar Lee Masters indited 243 poems about the people buried in the Spoon River?s Cemetery, which is where the poem Lucinda Matlock came from. Each character speaks from the grave about his own epigraph. Lucinda lived a very long life of ninety-six years. From what Masters conveyed in his poem, it seemed like Lucinda enjoyed her life and was very satisfied with everything she had accomplished.
Edgar Lee Masters was a poet and novelist born in the late 1800s. He is most known for his famous 1915 publication of Spoon River Anthology, a compilation of 244 free-verse epitaphs told from the grave by the former residents, both real and imaginary, of Spoon River, a fictitious small town. All 244 dead residents of Spoon River have a story to tell about their victories, hardships, and their secrets. Masters became famous by revealing the secret lives and loves of a small town’s residents, told in their own voices from beyond the grave into American poetry. This was a sensitive subject matter and an innovative method.
Anyone who reads Clare’s writing would find it impossible to deny how her compelling characters are brought to life with their individual humor and backstories. One example of this is her first book in the Mortal Instruments Series, City of Bones. Clare wrote “‘Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”(Mark Twain) means that the quantity and power of you and the people who support you isn’t what wins confrontations but it’s how determined you and everyone supporting you is. Maria Teresa embodies that through her struggle in prison while she goes through her pregnancy. While Mate was in prison she was pregnant and it caused her to become weak and starved “Minerva excused me from class. I felt like my insides are trying to get out. I’ve gotten so thin, I’ve had to take in the waistbands of all my panties and stuff the cups of my brassiere with handkerchiefs”(235). Minerva’s class was where they analyzed literature. This quote shows Mate’s toughness for her to
Jane presents one aspect of woman in The Waking collection (1953): Ross-Bryant views Jane as a young girl who is dead. The poem expresses concern with the coming of death. This poignant elegy is presen...
In the poem "Butch Weldy's" by Edgar Master Lee, addresses, one morning he was refilling the canning with gasoline since he works for the
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...laws and all. The Harlem Dancer, McKay illustrates the scenery and admires the beauty of a prostitute as she puts on a show for the crowd, though he knows she is hiding her true feelings with smiles. Both views on the women are rare thoughts, being that other people don’t usually see the way these two poets illustrate. Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, pretty heart, and most importantly, a beautiful soul.