(1) Summarize the range of personal credos in segments of Masters’ Spoon River Anthology.
(2) Trace evidence of Masters’ heartland speech and characterizations in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Hamlin Garland’s Main-Traveled Roads, or Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Babbitt.
(3) Contrast Masters’ Spoon River portraiture with that of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” “Miniver Cheevy,” “Mr. Flood’s Party,” or “Luke Havergal.”
(4) Discuss the absence of meaningful human relationships in Masters’ poetry.
