Spoon River Anthology, Serepta Mason summary
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In Serepta Mason, the speaker protests that the village sees only the damaged side of her life and misses the part that flowers. Speaking from the dust, she challenges the living for judging without understanding the unseen forces that shape a person's growth.
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- Serepta pictures her life as a blossom whose growth a bitter wind restricts.
- She says the village sees only the side where her petals suffer.
- She raises a protest from the dust and insists that her flowering side remains unseen.
- She calls the living foolish for failing to understand the hidden forces governing life.
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