Freed by the shackles of life, the un-living who “sleep beneath these weeds” confess their deepest secrets, disappointments, frustrations, joys, and warnings to the living in the form of brutally honest free verse poems. In the groundbreaking work, Masters, a onetime law partner of Clarence Darrow, gives voice to more than two hundred deceased citizens of Spoon River who are laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery, known to the locals as The Hill. Hallwas, author of Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition.
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.“Although such experiences and views were part of American culture, poets had not written about them before,” says John E. 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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