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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMANDA BARKER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HENRY GOT ME WITH CHILD
Last Line: THAT HE SLEW ME TO GRATIFY HIS HATRED.
Subject(s): HATE;
Henry got me with child
Knowing that I could not bring forth life
Without losing my own.
In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.
Traveler, it is believed in the village where I lived
That Henry loved me with a husband's love,
But I proclaim from the dust
That he slew me to gratify his hatred.



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