Spoon River

Spoon River Thomas Rhodes talks about how the people in Spoon River could have prevented their hard times. He compared people in Spoon River to navigators and sailors because they found with all their boasted wisdom how hard at the last it is to keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms. He also says that seekers of earth's treasures are self-contained and harmonized even to the end. In this poem you are not told …

…Thomas Rhodes feels about money. The poem is the exact way Thomas would talk if he was alive today. What drew me to this poem was the fact that Rhodes knows that other people affect your way of life more than any other force imaginable. If one gets suppressed by this pressure to conform, the results are so devastating, they're lives not only change for the worst but fall into the unrecoverable depth of oblivion.