GOOD MORNING,

GRADE 9!
Here starts
the lesson!
 RICHARD
Lesson
CORY
8
 01
INTRODUCTION
TEACHER ABI ASKS:

Have you ever

experienced being
envious of other people,
especially the rich
ones?
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AUTHOR
 American poet
THE AUTHOR
●

who is best
known for his
short dramatic
poems
● Published 28
books of poetry
● Best know for
his ‘Tilbury
EDWIN ARLINGTON
Town’ poems
ROBINSON
 03
CHARACTERS
CHARACTERS

RICHARD CORY VELMA

FATHER BAILEY DIANA

NEWSPAPER
TOWNSPEOPLE
REPORTER
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OVERVIEW
 POEM
PLOT
Overview
“Richard Cory” is a
narrative poem that
describes a wealthy,
well-educated, mannerly
person who is admired by
the people in his town
and yest despite of
this, he commits
suicide.
 POEM
Whenever Richard Cory went down
town,
We people on the pavement looked at
him:
He was a gentleman from sole to
crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he
talked;
But 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
grace:
In fine, we thought that he was
everything
To make us wish that we were in his
place.
So on we worked, and waited for the
light,
And went without the meat, and
cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer
night,
Went home and put a bullet through
his head.
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LET’S
ANALYZE
 THEMES
underlying message that every artist or writer wants to
convey to us.

APPEARANCES
CAN BE
DECEIVING
 THEMES
he is often seen, heard, and
admired by the community.
Throughout the poem, Richard
Cory was portrayed as a man
who, on the surface, seems
APPEARANCES to have it all: money, good
CAN BE looks, gentility, and
connection to others.
DECEIVING
 THEMES
“Richard Cory” offers a
reminder—and perhaps a
warning—about the
hidden depths of people
APPEARANCES whose whole selves are
CAN BE supposedly known and
DECEIVING understood.
 THEMES

Beneath the wealth and

success, the silent
truth of Cory’s
APPEARANCES unhappiness remained an
CAN BE unseen mystery.
DECEIVING
 THEMES
By elevating Cory to
something other than fully
human and vulnerable, the
community were unable to
fathom Cory’s unknown
APPEARANCES despair—which has been left,
CAN BE by his death, perhaps
forever mysterious.
DECEIVING
 THEMES
underlying message that every artist or writer wants to
convey to us.

APPEARANCES
ENVY AND
CAN BE
DECEIVING ADMIRATION
 THEMES

The narrator and the

narrator’s community
harbor deep envy of
ENVY AND Richard Cory, but
ADMIRATION they admire him too.
 THEMES
The narrator and the
narrator’s community
view Cory either as a
glittering god to be
worshipped from afar or
ENVY AND as an enemy, the symbol
ADMIRATION of all they wish to
have for themselves.
 THEMES
Robinson offers the
possibility that Cory’s
suicide derives from the
isolation and loneliness he
experiences as a result of
the strong, but
ENVY AND disconnecting, feelings that
ADMIRATION his community exhibit
towards him.
 THEMES

"Richard Cory"
presents a sharp
contrast between
WEALTH AND the rich and the
HAPPINESS poor.
 THEMES
the poem reminds readers
that money isn’t
everything or warns
readers against coveting
cash that won’t bring
them happiness (or even
WEALTH AND
condemns Richard Cory
HAPPINESS for wasting his lavish
lifestyle)
 THEMES
wealth and the
comparison between
those who have it
and those who do
WEALTH AND not—remains central
HAPPINESS to the meaning of
the poem.
 BIAS VS
PREJUDICE
 BIAS PREJUDICE
refers to a refers to a
tendency for or preconceived view
against a person, that is not
idea, or thing, supported by
especially in a way experience or
that is thought to logic.
be unfair
BOOK ACTIVITIES
LESSON 8
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Page 187: Exercise B
Page 192: Drive On A
EXERCISE EXERCISE
LESSON 7 LESSON 8
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