Another character asserts "Degenerate sons and daughters / Life is too strong for you— / It takes life to love Life."
One character in this work asks "Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, / While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?" Another character asserts "Degenerate sons and daughters / Life is too strong for you— / It takes life to love Life." In addition to Petit, the Poet, and Lucinda Matlock, this book's characters include the prostitute Daisy Frasier and Thomas Rhodes, who owns the bank of the title location. It consists of dramatic monologues narrated by the dead inhabitants of the title Illinois town. For 10 points, name this poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters.
One character in this work asks "Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, / While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?"
{Spoon River} Anthology