The Poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson from 1869 to 1935 uses an admirational and superficial tone, a third person limited point of view, and the main theme to never judge a book by it’s cover to show a complex attitude towards Richard Cory’s suicide.
The author uses a formal and superficial tone to describe who Richard Cory was and his importance to the town. A formal tone is portrayed by the author when said “He was a gentleman from sole to crown”. The author uses more sophisticated and complement based phrases to describe Richard Cory instead of the usual phrases such as from head to toe instead of sole to crown. Then the author’s superficial tone is shown all throughout the poem but directly seen when said “Whenever Richard Cory went down town”. Proof is shown that Richard Cory is not known on a deeper and more intimate level instead all throughout the poem Richard is just being superficially described of what the people know of him when he goes to town or school. The significance of these is that this shows how people can know nothing real about a person and still feel connected by describing everything they see, but then Cory killed himself and the cold hard truth are exposed that they no nothing at all. …show more content…
Said on the second verse “We people on the pavement looked at him”. This proves that the point of view is being explained by the people and how they look up to Richard Cory. As said in the eleventh verse “ we thought that he was everything”. This shows how to the people Richard Cory was like royalty to them and how he was the image of perfect. The significance is that with knowing how the townspeople see Richard Cory ties in with the present on how people don’t try to associate themselves with other people who they think are not on the same level when that should never matter because we are all
The author uses a formal and superficial tone to describe who Richard Cory was and his importance to the town. A formal tone is portrayed by the author when said “He was a gentleman from sole to crown”. The author uses more sophisticated and complement based phrases to describe Richard Cory instead of the usual phrases such as from head to toe instead of sole to crown. Then the author’s superficial tone is shown all throughout the poem but directly seen when said “Whenever Richard Cory went down town”. Proof is shown that Richard Cory is not known on a deeper and more intimate level instead all throughout the poem Richard is just being superficially described of what the people know of him when he goes to town or school. The significance of these is that this shows how people can know nothing real about a person and still feel connected by describing everything they see, but then Cory killed himself and the cold hard truth are exposed that they no nothing at all. …show more content…
Said on the second verse “We people on the pavement looked at him”. This proves that the point of view is being explained by the people and how they look up to Richard Cory. As said in the eleventh verse “ we thought that he was everything”. This shows how to the people Richard Cory was like royalty to them and how he was the image of perfect. The significance is that with knowing how the townspeople see Richard Cory ties in with the present on how people don’t try to associate themselves with other people who they think are not on the same level when that should never matter because we are all