Spoon River Anthology
Afred Moir – “Where I chanced to see the book in a window, With its garish cover luring my eye? And why did my soul respond to the book, As I read it over and over?”
The quote in this poem stood out because it kind of reminds me of tragic flaws. The book represents a recorded memory in which the “luring eye” cannot avoid. Responding to the book is like trying to repeat the past or make things right again like how Gatsby and Ahab tried to do. Reading it over and over represents how the menacing memory can just linger in your mind again and again while damaging your conscience. Sometimes a memory is best left alone instead of being revisited over and over again. Nostalgia can lead to much anguish in one’s soul.
