Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MINERVA JONES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MINERVA JONES, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am minerva, the village poetess
Last Line: I hungered so for life!
Variant Title(s): Minerva Jones


I AM Minerva, the village poetess,
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street
For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,
And all the more when "Butch" Weldy
Captured me after a brutal hunt.
He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers;
And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up,
Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice.
Will some one go to the village newspaper,
And gather into a book the verses I wrote? --
I thirsted so for love!
I hungered so for life!





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net