Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Today I read Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. As you may know, it is a collection of poems each written from the perspective of a dead inhabitant of the fictitious town Spoon River.
The inhabitants reflect on their lives, the bitter twists of fate and fortune, the ironies, the regrets, even the nature of the tombstones and burial plots beneath they now rest. It’s a great collection and a pleasure to read.
And did you know Edgar Lee Masters had a turbulent life. He suffered many disappointments in love during his life, buy kept looking for a woman who could ease his lifelong loneliness. In his autobiography, Across Spoon River, he wrote, ‘’Lovers who pass from our lives are more pathetic than the dead, for departed lovers are those who are buried alive. They are somewhere yet in the world, reminding us of hopes that failed, of dreams that were misled’’.
Carpe Diem,
MJ
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