Similarities Between Richard Cory And Robinson's Poetry

In the two poems presented, “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson and “Glass Ceiling” by T.R. Hummer, both of these poems talk about masking their feelings and pretending to be someone who they really are not. In Robinson’s poem, the main character seems to be the happiest guy there could possibly be and then later that night he kills himself. In Hummer’s poem the main character says his grandma is much different from other grandmothers because she does things no other grandmothers would do and in the end he says someone died, he was covering for his grandmother.

In the poem, "Glass Ceiling" by T.R Hummer, his poem talks about how his grandmother can do extraordinary things unlike other grandmothers such as making "impossible" shots. Later on towards the end of the poem, he mentions, "we tremble together in the riptide of her passing." his grandmother may have been very sick and he might have been just covering for her so he won't believe that she's sick. This represents the theme of making feelings and hiding someone’s identity to cover up for them so the world will not see who they really are or how they are really feeling. …show more content…
The narrator takes a sudden turn and finishes the poem with “And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.” This is significant because Richard Cory was masking his feelings and pretending to look the opposite of what he feels, inside he was possibly hurting and nothing was going okay in his life yet other people thought he was doing well by the way he