In the epitaph Minerva Jones from Spoon River Anthology by a famous poet Edgar Lee the individual is a poetess, she is pregnant and gets rude comments and stares for it, but has great confidence although she got captured and left for dead with the burden she carry's she hungers life and thirst for love. The people this person speaks about is two men one a man name "Butch" Weldy who has captured her and violated leaving her to her doom her with Doctor Meyers who is helping her. Some of the things that lets us know about the poet's view small-town American culture and values at this time is that she values her verses and wonders if someone would go to the villages newspaper and make a book out of her verses, she identifies that people within the small town know everything right away its spreads like a disease and people make rude comments off of the way they look.…show more content… The people this person speaks about is three people The Circuit Judge who knows who did it due to the fact that it was a worker of his, Old Rhodes' son the person for whom the individual worked for and Jack the Fiddler a person he related himself to. Some of the things that lets us know about the poet's view small-town American culture and values at this time is that he was barely getting religion, steadied down , and given work when a tragedy happened that caused him to go blind and has been told that the person who did is was a worker of his, that in the small-town everyone is close but not everyone is true to who they are, they may be close to you but not in the intentions you may
