One may also find in the “Spoon River Anthology” a depiction of how the industrial developments in American economy affected the village life.Louise Smith rejected by Herbert, was loving but then hateful, great suffering and anguish, gives advice based on experience Herbert Marshall says Louise's sorrow was her own fault, delusion and hatred, one-sided relationship, too dependent and expectant, opposite of Louise Mrs. Masters expressed his sympathy aroused by the misfortunes of soldiers just before America entered World War I (in 1917, throughout the course of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency). The fatalistic drama about their lives reflects Masters’ anger caused by social exploitation, political injustice, and economic hardship. Masters conveys his philosophical concerns about accidental events that determined fates of these deceased persons and prevented them from fulfilling their desires. People portrayed in his poems speak in free-verse monologues that sound like their own epitaphs – inscriptions on their tombstones in memory of themselves, buried there. Edgar Lee Masters intertwined his social and ethical involvement with the accounts of the frustrated lives of his characters.
Both the Internet resources and books on history of American literature provide information about life of the poet and his achievements confirmed by almost one hundred editions of his book, translations into many languages, and by granting the poet in 1946 the Academy of American Poets Fellowship also, some comments and explanations about his personal views within historical and cultural context.
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