Jan 05 2009
Spoon River Anthology: pg. 1-24
While reading the first part of Spoon River Anthology there were a lot of poems that I saw that I could write about, but the one I liked the most was one called “Indignation” Jones. He starts it out by saying that you would never know that he was actually an educated man, and someone who came from good blood because all people do is judge by looks. “You saw me only as a run-down man, with matted hair and beard and ragged clothes. Sometimes a man’s life turns into a cancer, from being bruised and continually bruised…so I crept, crept like a snail through the days of my life.” (11). I think I had the most sympathy for “Indignation” Jones of all the people mentioned in these pages. He didn’t seem to do anything to deserve the disrespect and pain he constantly felt from the community. He led a lonely life because people judged him before they even knew him. The fact that he knew that he was just as educated as them but didn’t brag or continue to remind them shows his pride.
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