addie2’s Blog

I noticed that in the last thirty pages of Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters uses the names of many famous people in the world as the last names for people from spoon river. Columbus Cheney, he could be using Christopher Columbus’s name and if you’re like me think he’s using Cheney for Dick Cheney. [...]

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” Was second to none in Spoon River, In my Devotion to the cause of Liberty?”
At first when I read this poem, I thought the title was just a coincidence in relation to the famous John Hancock, but as I read the poem all the way through it made more sense to me that John Hancock [...]

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” If I could have lived another year I could have finished my flying machine, And become rich and famous.”
I found that Franklin Jone’s story related very much to my essay on American character because it describes the ambition of wealth and money of americans. Franklin Jones is dead and yet he’s still lamenting about [...]

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” Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich of trading with the inians, and who afterwords took the bankrupt law And emerged from it richer than ever.”
I chose this poem because the theme particularly stood out to me, and I chose this quote because it really relates to my essay. This man, Bill Piersol, is [...]

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