live the life while you have the chance. The song tells us that with a new attitude you can have a better perspective on life. Life is what you make and this is what Lucinda believed. She believed that we should live life to the fullest and enjoy every second of it. You control your life so do what you can to appreciate it. Lucinda talked about losing hope and how being unhappy is a waste of your time. This song proves to us that if you forget about the sad things in life your troubles will go away
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In Edgar Lee Master’s poem‚ “Lucinda Matlock”‚ he tells the story of a wise old woman who had a life filled with the joy of her husband Davis and her children while also enduring hardships such as suffering the loss of eight children and spending long days tending to the house. However‚ Lucinda dies content with the life she has led and reminds the younger generation not to let themselves feel trapped by the difficult
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“Lucinda Matlock and George Gray” Edgar Lee Masters’ conveys how life can be perceived through the eyes of two people in the same town‚ who lived completely opposite lives. Lucinda Matlock was very wise woman‚ who lived life to the fullest. On the other hand‚ George Gray was too scared to live his life. Though the two had similar outlooks‚ their experiences were very different. The two speakers in Masters’ poems show that life is too short to not take chances. Despite the fact that Lucinda and
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In the first half of the twentieth century in American Literature‚ writers often portrayed individuals who felt trapped in their lives. In Edgar Lee Masters writing‚ “Lucinda Matlock”‚ Matlock is dead but‚ during her life‚ she was able to see what really mattered and what did not. She feels trapped in trying to communicate to today’s youth. She is trying to tell them to look at life differently and enjoy the adventures while paying attention to what is happening around you. Similarly‚ T.S. Eliot
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Comparison All four poems that I read are related in their purposes and goals; however‚ they are also very different. "Lucinda Matlock" by Edward Lee Masters‚ "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg‚ "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson‚ and "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar are all about the joys and sorrows of life. How we look at life makes life good or bad. "Lucinda Matlock" is a story of a woman‚ who‚ by some standards‚ would have a life that we consider a mediocre. However‚ the narrator of
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The poem‚ “Love Song for Lucinda” by Langston Hughes is about love and what it takes to be in love. Hughes uses a lot of metaphors and only three stanzas to talk about love in the poem. In the first stanza his poem states‚ “And the spell of its enchantment / Will never let you be” (5-6). Hughes puts this in his poem because love is supposed to always be there‚ and isn’t supposed to die. You are supposed to fall so in love that you are almost under a spell‚ and you can’t see which way is up. In the
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lives of Seth Compton and Lucinda Matlock from what they tell us. Master’s brilliant style of writing shows us directly the journeys of these characters from a first person point of view. These poems give a glimpse into the lives of characters who once lived in Spoon River. With deep interpretation‚ we can see what their personalities were like‚ what they believed in‚ and how the poems relate to Masters himself. After reading the poems told by Seth Compton and Lucinda Matlock‚ it is clear what their
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was often seen using a more direct and straight forward approach to his writing. This enables him to maintain a sense of precision in developing his characters and staying accurate to their lifestyle; they tend to be farmland people. His poem “Lucinda Matlock” is told to the reader from the protagonist’s‚ an old woman’s point of view‚ which makes this a dramatic monologue‚ because she talks about herself and her life. She does this as though she is reflecting back on her life‚ over a seventy year span
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Happiness is hard to find‚ but once found it is not easily forgotten. Many people search their entire lives trying to find it and never do. In Spoon River‚ three individuals tell of their lives and how they found happiness. As a young girl‚ Lucinda Matlock‚ would go to the town dances. She would dance with various types of boys during the dance‚ at one of these dances she meet Davis‚ who she connected with spontaneously and to whom she got married. They lived together for seventy years‚ had twelve
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In Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory‚” Robinson employs diction that sets us up to believe that Richard Cory is everything that anyone would want to be. The name “Richard” even sounds of royalty and riches; many kings had the name Richard and the word “rich” is within the name itself. The townspeople view him as “imperially slim‚” as “a gentleman from sole to crown‚” (830) and was even described as “richer than a king” (831). Richard Cory “went downtown” and the townspeople referred to themselves
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