Richard Cory Poem Analysis Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We :: English Literature

Richard Cory Poem Analysis Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We hatful on the sidewalk looked at him Richard Cory Poem AnalysisWhenever Richard Cory went down town,We people on the paving material looked at himHe was a gentleman from sole to bill,Clean favored, and imperially slim.And he was al moods quietly arrayed,And he was always human when he talkedBut still he fluttered pulses when he said,Good-morning, and he glittered when he walked.And he was rich - yes, richer than a king -And admirably schooled in every pardonIn fine we thought that he was everythingTo make us care that we were in his place.So on we worked, and waited for the light,And went without the meat, and cursed the breadAnd Richard Cory, one unagitated summer night,Went home and put a bullet through his head. metrical composition has been an important part of the English language for manycenturies. This art is so diverse and complete that some people spendtheir life canvass it and many still have a lot t o learn from it, hitherto when approaching their death. Although the immensity of poetrycontent, this text will treat of besides one great poem written in 1897by Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory. This xvi lines shortstory tells a lot about human irony. Richard Cory, a wealthy man,admired and envied by those who consider themselves less fortunatethan he, circumstantially commits suicide. The most intriguing part ofthis poem is the reason why he shot himself when he had everything?Through their own mental prejudices and exaggerations of reality, thepeople, by lay Cory on a higher level than them, also erected a talk barrier that later pushed Richard to commit suicide.We know Richard Cory only through the way that We people on thepavement see his exterior personality. Richards familiar being, otherthan when he committed suicide, is never explicitly evealed. In the head start fourteen lines of the poem all we learn about Richard Cory arethe images that universal people (us) ha ve from such a man who isalmost seen as a king or a living god. First of all, in line two, thevillagers demonstrate that they feel inferior to Cory when they namethemselves the people on the pavement. This might have a connotationwith homeless people or beggars in their opinion, Richard is seen asa King sole to crown and them as his admiring subjects. Even hisname, Richard Cory, evokes the name of the king Richard Coeur deLion. Then, they describe him as a true gentleman, who was always