Spoon River Poem
Crazy Happiness
“A Series of Poems Based on Life Pulled from Spoon River Anthology”
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 kids, and lost eight of them. Most people would agree that losing a child is tough and that losing eight would be devastating. This woman lost eight kids and she never once complained or became discouraged. She continued her life. Happy to take care of those she had left. She could be caught “, singing to the green hills,” which shows just how content she was. She also tells of how she would hear about the sorrows of others, but all she says is “it takes life to love life.” This shows that even though she had a few unfortunate events in her life she was still happy with the life that was given to her. She dies pleased and with no regrets. …show more content…
Jones never married, but he had a profound love for the fiddle. He says “the earth keeps some vibration going there in your heart, and that is you”. For him that vibration is his fiddle. For Lucinda it was her family, quite a difference there. He is not a farmer, but he has forty acres of land and he expresses slightly that he would not have minded working the land to acquire more land. As the poem goes on however we see that he enjoys playing the fiddle for people and watching how happy they are. He finally stops playing when he breaks his fiddle and he states “I ended up with forty acres, a broken fiddle, and a broken laugh, but not a single regret”. We visibly see that this man life ended with a lot of broken possessions, but it also ended with no regrets. He dies pleased and with no
“A Series of Poems Based on Life Pulled from Spoon River Anthology”
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 kids, and lost eight of them. Most people would agree that losing a child is tough and that losing eight would be devastating. This woman lost eight kids and she never once complained or became discouraged. She continued her life. Happy to take care of those she had left. She could be caught “, singing to the green hills,” which shows just how content she was. She also tells of how she would hear about the sorrows of others, but all she says is “it takes life to love life.” This shows that even though she had a few unfortunate events in her life she was still happy with the life that was given to her. She dies pleased and with no regrets. …show more content…
Jones never married, but he had a profound love for the fiddle. He says “the earth keeps some vibration going there in your heart, and that is you”. For him that vibration is his fiddle. For Lucinda it was her family, quite a difference there. He is not a farmer, but he has forty acres of land and he expresses slightly that he would not have minded working the land to acquire more land. As the poem goes on however we see that he enjoys playing the fiddle for people and watching how happy they are. He finally stops playing when he breaks his fiddle and he states “I ended up with forty acres, a broken fiddle, and a broken laugh, but not a single regret”. We visibly see that this man life ended with a lot of broken possessions, but it also ended with no regrets. He dies pleased and with no