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    Loneliness is a complex and generally unsavory passionate reaction to segregation or absence of companionship. This feeling can now and then be connected to emotional instability and ordinarily incorporates restless sentiments around an absence of association or correspondence with different beings, both in the present and stretching out into what 's to come. Thusly, forlornness can be felt notwithstanding, when encompassed by other individuals. The reasons for depression are shifted and…

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    When we were young, like elementary or even middle school, we didn’t have a single worry on our minds the world was our playground and we could do whatever we wanted without worrying about what others thought. Then suddenly in high school this awkward phase between teenage and adulthood sneaks up on us and we are left with the question “Who am I?” For some people that question is answered simply and they go on and live their lives doing what they want and are happy. However for some people that…

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    Edwin Arlington Robinson

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    “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates great significance with depression that reflects in today’s upper class societal issues. His poem is about a rich man that commits suicide and the thoughts of the people who encounter him during his everyday life. Outward appearances are not always, what it seems. Those who suffer from depression can appear to be happy and loving people on the outside, but on the inside, can be suffering from unrelenting nightmares. While money does not…

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    In his poem, “Richard Cory” Edwin uses irony to show how we are to a man like him. Maintaining the idea that this man had everything going for him and was a well to do man. From the outside, the men working saw this man everyday, gazing at what a man should look like. Charles Burkhart gives criticism that show his contrast and his own ideas and claims about the man. In Richard Cory, author’s creates irony by using imagery, diction, and contrast to show the true description of the man and…

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    Richard Cory Diction

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    In the poem, “Richard Cory,” Edwin A. Robinson emphasizes the idea that people do not really know one another, and sometimes our perspective of an individual is skewed. Today there are standards regarding the expectations and desires of humanity. Individuals that have the “desirable” characteristics are considered superior and are envied by the rest of us. However, exceeding the societal norms does not guarantee happiness. In the poem, Richard Cory seems to have it all, but in fact was miserable…

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    Have you ever wanted to trade places with another person? In the poem, “Richard Corey” by Edwin A Robinson, the townspeople wanted to trade places with a gentleman named Richard Corey. People were jealous of him and wished they could be in his place, but one day, to everyone's surprise, Richard Corey committed suicide. The theme in Richard Corey, is that appearances can be deceiving. The beginning introduces Richard Corey from the first person point of view of the townspeople. Using this point…

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    For instance, Defoe introduces the reader to the book Robinson Crusoe as “a just History of Fact”. The novelists picked and chose some facts about places and set their adventures about distant places in a romantic form. But the body of the writing was based on concrete descriptions of travellers backed up by the maps of cartographers. Robinson Crusoe is the perfect representation of this phenomenon. The location of his island was authentic and supported…

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    place that provides one with warmth, comfort, love, sense of acceptance, and stability. But those attitudes toward home are not always found in everyone; one may be innately be adverted from it, like the case of many adventure-takers such as Robinson Crusoe. And there are the ones who find the home as a utopia, such as in the case of Candide. Even though two men start with two different views on the meaning of home, one being dull and another being comfortable, through their journey, two men…

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    Beginning I have decided to go out to sea, against my parent’s advice. I am going out to sea seeking adventure, instead of the mid-life my father says I shall live. I decided to head out for sea with a companion in his father’s ship. I left without consulting with my mother or my father. I was terribly seasick after a great storm, which the rest thought was the equivalent of nothing. We are in a terrible storm and I’m regretting my past actions I should have stayed home like my father said.…

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