Theme of Death in Three Poems

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This paper reviews and discusses the three poems "Richard Cory," "My Last Duchess," and "We Real Cool". The paper focuses primarily on the theme of death, prevalent in all three.

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"The narrator in a poem is the character whose voice is telling the story and through whose eyes we see the characters and action happen. The narrator is not necessarily the poet, although because of the use of "I" or "we," it may seem that way sometimes. In the poem "Richard Cory," the narrator is a male who is part of a group of males in a town or village ("on the sidewalk"), whom now we might say are boys who "grew up in the streets." They are probably about the same age as Richard Cory. The situation is one in which common, working people are observing a privileged person. "

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