Edgar Lee Masters' poems "Hamilton Greene" and "Elsa Wertman" are very unusual. It is unusual that a writer will link two poems together in such a way. I read "Hamilton Greene" first and did not realize the connection until I began to read into "Elsa Wertman". "Hamilton Greene" gives off a completely different vibe once the reader reads and understands "Elsa Wertman" because of the secrecy and scandal. The reader can tell that the time period that these were meant for was supposed to be an earlier time, perhaps the eighteen hundreds. The scandal of these poems is necessary because it shows to the reader that even the most proper of families have hidden secrets.