Edgar Lee Master
An American writer who made his mark on American Literature in the 20th century is Edgar Lee Masters, an amazing poet, novelist, and biographer who made his reputation in Spoon River Anthology poetry. Rather than using rhymes, Masters preferred his free verse style of writing in his poetry, especially in Spoon River Anthology. Published by Masters, Spoon River Anthology was a book of 244 poems about deceased fictional citizens of a town named Spoon River. Relatively simple in his works, Master’s made it easy for all to read his works, yet made it famous at the same time, as shown in Spoon River Anthology.On the other hand, Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology may have been similar poems in one book; they were each very different in a unique way. All but one of the names of the poems in Spoon River Anthology were the names of the people, or titles these people earned, that the poems were focused on; that one poem, “The Hill,” is the cemetery where all these people were buried and is the first poem introduce in Spoon River Anthology. Each of the people has their own secret lives, thoughts, and meanings, as people from any other small town in America do. Masters shows us these people inner thoughts and meaning
And this is the silence of wisdom.”(Masters, 198) Although “Ernest Hyde” may be the one who disagrees with free will, he seemed to prove his point to Roger Heston in the poem “Roger Heston.” Ernest may have gotten the “last laugh” so to speak because at the end of this poem because he proved his point, that free will does not exist, to Roger before Roger died. From the poem “Roger Heston” Roger is attacked by a cow that bites apart the rope which holds it back which attacks Roger and kills him. Ernest got his final word to Roger as he was running as shown in the following lines from “Roger Henson.” In a way Masters expresses Realism, or a way of expressing actual life. In this case, Masters shows that as things get older they begin to lose their function. In this poem Masters shows that the mirror, over time, gets scratched and slowly loses its function to reflect; this defies free will because the mirror has no choice but to get old. The mirror can be compared to the human mind or even the human body. Over time, the mind begins to lose its function, to think and function the body, just like the mirror but the human mind controls a person unlike the mirror. Ernest’s view of life can be compared to the mirror because there are some times where you just don’t have a choice in life. “That’s life.”
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Approximate Word count = 1363
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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