Minerva Jones Poem

In the epitaph "Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters I learned that she was looked at as a person with a "heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk" and that she was the village poetess. The people this poetess speaks about are as she refers to as "Yahoos of the street" these were the people who would hoot and jeer at her as she walked by because of her looks. She also says that someone named Butch Weldy captured her after a brutal hunt and that she "sank into death, growing numb from the feet up" she is now pregnant by Butch. This lets us know how the poet's view on small-town America because not only does that seem bad that in the epitaph the girl is "captured" she is thirsty for love and hungry for life which means she isn't loved nor does she
But also in the poem he was blinded in an accident at the canning works. In the epitaph he talks about himself and how he as jury foreman he helped find Roy Butler guilty of a rape he did not commit. This poem shows that his views on small-town America is that you can get away with crimes just that easy.

In the poem titled "Roy Butler" also by Edgar Lee Masters I know the speaker of this poem is Roy Butler who was found guilty of the rape of Minerva Jones "within ten minutes" by this happening he learns that things never are fair. Doesn't matter when or where you are you might not get a happy ending. In this epitaph he learned that even though he knows and others know that he is not guilty of this crime one person can mess things
Church it speaks about a man who is the attorney for the "Q" he was known as a man who can manipulate people as if it was second nature. In verse 4 it says that "I pulled the wires with judge and jury, and the upper courts, to beat claims of the crippled, the widow and orphan, and made a fortune thereat." This shows that no matter if innocent or guilty he will not lose a case because he is good at playing with people. Because of what he has done he regrets it it says "rats devoured my heart and snake made a nest in my skull!" This shows that he does not feel good for making innocent people lose their cases.

In the poem "Doctor Meyers" I know he was a well known doctor who was also a kind man who had no problem helping people in need. In the poem it explains how he was treated after something he did to help someone. He helped Minerva and tried to perform an abortion on her which is unholy and at the end she died. "I tried to help her out --she died-- They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me, My wife perished of a broken heart." This shows how because he tried to help this women his reputation was tarnished, he lost his wife, and at the end he himself