LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER

Name: Marguaxe Hinacay Section: ABBD-BD1A

Unknown Story of Life

The first stanza was quite confusing, the words were unfamiliar and I was
flustered by it. I can say that the writer of the poem is sad, happy, amazed and terrified.
Richard Cory was loved by the people, honored nor respected to the point that they do
not know how he felt during those time. Edwin Robinson clearly shows us in his poem
"Richard Cory" that the life of someone else may not be all what it is cracked up to be.

Richard Cory, the famous gentlemen. I thought it is just a simple story about a
man who’s loved by his neighborhood but there is much more about it. He said good
morning to others and he seemed to brighten everyone’s days, he was rich and it sad
he was admired by others and he seemed to be a nice gentleman. It seemed like
people thinks that he has all the luxury and everything in life but there is more behind it.
As I read the poem over and over again, I got confused; maybe because the ending
was unexpected and it was different from what I imagine. Richard Cory was a suicidal,
and people are not aware about his feelings. He was greeting everyone with a smile,
that he wanted to feel, and helping everyone without any complain, that he needed. The
residents admired Richard Cory, they begrudged him and his way of life. Nonetheless,
assuming they would have looked somewhat nearer, rather than passing judgment on
him from his appearance, they would have not had any desire to be. This is truly dismal
on the grounds that I realize a few suicides truly happen like this, in actuality. Individuals
consider the casualty to be by and large truly sure about all that they do, however as a
general rule they are very great at concealing their internal feelings. The settings that
this writer utilizes makes the peruses imagine that Richard Cory is a cheerful man who
is significantly appreciated. Downtown is one of the settings that was utilized.
Downtown is utilized as where Richard Cory appeared to have gone frequently on the
grounds that individuals that work there appear to know what his identity is. Individuals
who worked downtown on the asphalt were individuals that passed judgment on him
just by the way that he looked. They imagined that he was wonderful on the grounds
that he didn't seem to have any issues and looked exceptionally cheerful. The last
setting that was utilized was a quiet summer night. This setting causes everything to
appear to be so serene, yet in all actuality Richard Cory was committing suicide. It is an
unexpected setting since we think the exact inverse as we are perusing the poem.

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 Irony is a component Robinson uses especially well in this poem. Sensational
irony can be portrayed as a distinction between what they crowd might hope to occur,
and what the speaker knows or accepts. In Richard Cory we are acquainted with a man
who appears to have everything; he is affluent, healthy, taught and polite, yet in spite of
all of this the peruse can reason that Cory has been living with wretchedness, thus
takes steps to take his own life. As the play moves along, Robinson utilizes the basic
construction examined before to make a sensation of glad go-luckiness, however in the
last two lines we are hit with the emotional irony, on a quiet evening this well-off man
puts a "shot in his mind.

This poem keeps on resounding with read today in view of its significance to
present day social orders. We face a daily reality such that intensely values financial
and materialistic collection, where we are occasionally reminded that this doesn't really
liken to satisfaction or satisfaction. Self-destruction and gloom are as yet common
today, and can be associated with similar sensations of disengagement that were
capable by Cory, regardless of his schooling and plentiful measure of riches.
Additionally, I accept that nearly anybody, regardless of their conditions can identify with
being jealous of another's position or assets, similarly as the speaker gives off an
impression of being of Cory. Robinson plays on this inclination eventually, with a spot of
an incongruity that is Cory's self-destruction, carrying the peruser to feeling contrite and
thoughtful for such an individual's actual inward unrest.
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"Edwin Arlington Robinson." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. 6th Edition e

N.p.: Columbia University Press, 2015. N. pag. Print
Harbour, Kathy. "One-man Play Profiles Maine Poet Robinson, Poem `Richard Cory
Center of Test Debate." Bangor Daily News 1 Apr. 1995: n. pag. Print.
Peschel, Bill. "Edwin Arlington Robinson." American National Biography. N.p.:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44982/richard-cory