"Richard Cory"

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This paper is a literary analysis of the poem "Richard Cory" by late eighteenth century poet Edward Arlington Robinson. The paper discusses the popularity of "Richard Cory," mainly because of the brief and simple plot and the familiar human characteristics which Robinson incorporates into the poem.

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"The succinct, simple plot of "Richard Cory" contributes to its circulation among generations of readers. Even some of the lower class people are able to read Robinson's poem because it does not contain the confusing poetic fluff common to the late 1800's. "But poems, like people, sometimes suffer from what familiarity so often breeds. This is especially true if the work appears to be fairly simple and uncomplicated" (Anderson 1). People of all classes can also relate to Robinson's poem because all humans know failure and its characteristic feelings. "The characters of works like "Richard Cory" are faced with failure and tragedy" (Peschel 1). Robinson's failures may be personal, or he may write about failures he witnesses his family suffer through."

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