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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ABEL MELVENY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought every kind of machine that's known Last Line: That life had never used. | |||
I BOUGHT every kind of machine that's known -- Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and plows and threshers -- And all of them stood in the rain and sun, Getting rusted, warped and battered, For I had no sheds to store them in, And no use for most of them. And toward the last, when I thought it over, There by my window, growing clearer About myself, as my pulse slowed down, And looked at one of the mills I bought -- Which I didn't have the slightest need of, As things turned out, and I never ran -- A fine machine, once brightly varnished, And eager to do its work, Now with its paint washed off -- I saw myself as a good machine That Life had never used. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FLETCHER MCGEE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GEORGE GRAY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MINERVA JONES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DAVIS MATLOCK by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DORA WILLIAMS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EMILY SPARKS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IN MEMORY OF BRYAN LATHROP by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LAMBERT HUTCHINS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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