Edgar Lee Masters: from "Spoon River Anthology" - Read Flashcards
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tells a story through characterization, dialogue, plot, and settings. the narrator in each poem, is talking to the reader
the tone in Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology
is both favorable and critical of rural life
Edgar Lee Masters’ collection of epitaphs, Spoon River Anthology, is
a collection of epitaphs written in person – “writings from the dead” so to speak
according to her epitaph in the Spoon River Anthology, where did Lucinda get medicines to nurse the sick?
she gathered medicinal plants by Spoon River
according to her epitaph in the Spoon River Anthology, why did Lucinda say she died at age ninety-six?
she had lived long enough, that is all
the town of Spoon River, of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, was patterned after
the little town Edgar Lee Masters grew up in
