Life is not always gentle
(A discussion on the theme “life” in Spoon River Anthology) In the spoon river anthology Edgar Lee Masters writes poems about life including the poems: Lucinda Matlock, Cassius Hueffer and Richard Bone. Through the book the presence of the theme life is imminent. An example of a poem that illustrates life is Richard Bone. The poem talks of how when he first came to Spoon River, how he would get the epitaph and people would stand around the shop and say good things about the people he wrote the epitaph on, at that time he did not know whether the thing …show more content…
Tragedy struck when 8 of the 12 kids die and her life gets worn out by it. Most people can relate to a tragedy but hopefully not of this caliber. The feeling of losing 8 kids worn out on her and aged her but he kept on going strong. She says “Ere i had reached the age of sixty, I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick, I made the garden, and for holiday i rambled over the fields where sang the larks”.
Life was not gentle to her and she had to go through a lot. She kept on going and ended up as a old woman that had lived enough and died sleeping in. She says “At ninety-six I had lived enough ,that is all, and passed to a sweet repose”. She does not mention regret but rather a sign of relief. She ends life by saying “It takes life to love life”.
Cassius Hueffer is a person who life was hard on. He describes how people thinks his epitaph was a good description of how his life was a gentle life and that he was a man. He is angry towards his epitaph as it is not true and it gives a false description of how life was to him. Now that he is dead he cannot change his epitaph and is graven as a
(A discussion on the theme “life” in Spoon River Anthology) In the spoon river anthology Edgar Lee Masters writes poems about life including the poems: Lucinda Matlock, Cassius Hueffer and Richard Bone. Through the book the presence of the theme life is imminent. An example of a poem that illustrates life is Richard Bone. The poem talks of how when he first came to Spoon River, how he would get the epitaph and people would stand around the shop and say good things about the people he wrote the epitaph on, at that time he did not know whether the thing …show more content…
Tragedy struck when 8 of the 12 kids die and her life gets worn out by it. Most people can relate to a tragedy but hopefully not of this caliber. The feeling of losing 8 kids worn out on her and aged her but he kept on going strong. She says “Ere i had reached the age of sixty, I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick, I made the garden, and for holiday i rambled over the fields where sang the larks”.
Life was not gentle to her and she had to go through a lot. She kept on going and ended up as a old woman that had lived enough and died sleeping in. She says “At ninety-six I had lived enough ,that is all, and passed to a sweet repose”. She does not mention regret but rather a sign of relief. She ends life by saying “It takes life to love life”.
Cassius Hueffer is a person who life was hard on. He describes how people thinks his epitaph was a good description of how his life was a gentle life and that he was a man. He is angry towards his epitaph as it is not true and it gives a false description of how life was to him. Now that he is dead he cannot change his epitaph and is graven as a