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 what Thomas does for a living, but it is implied that Thomas is a bank owner or has something to do with the bank because people are always worrying about paying him on time. There are no historical or literary allusions in this poem. There are also no similes in this poem. There are, however, a couple of metaphors in this poem. They are found in the lines: "...you liberals and navigators into realms inte....

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