On the other hand there is the inability to be different, or to stick out, as is highly visible in “ Minerva Jones” where a woman is killed for not being as feminine or beautiful as other women. This is especially visible in the poem “The Hill”, which describes the village's cemetery. On one side there is the familiarity and comfort of a close community, where people are known by nicknames, everyone knows everyone and people are born and, if they ever leave, return to be buried. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īll four poems are implied to take place in the titular village Spoon River and village life is prominent in most of the poems. Listen to a dramatic reading of “Lucinda Matlock” in this vintage recording of the Spoon River Anthology, performed by Betty Garrett and Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn the original Broadway cast.ĭid you enjoy Lucinda Matlock? You may read more Spoon River Anthology excerpts here.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. You will read a bit of Spoon River Anthology in Excellence in Literature English 3 American Literature Module 3.7. What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.Īt ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,Īnd by Spoon River gathering many a shell,
We were married and lived together for seventy years,Įnjoying, working, raising the twelve children, “Lucinda Matlock” from Spoon River Anthology, a 1916 collection of short free verse poems that narrates the epitaphs of the residents of the fictional small town, Spoon River, which was named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters’ home town in Illinois.ĭriving home in the moonlight of middle June, EIL 4.3 Spenser, Gawain, and Arthurian Context.
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