Comparing Robinson And T. R. Hummer's Poem Richard Cory

In Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem "Richard Cory", he writes about a man who ends up taking his life in a turn of events. In T.R. Hummer's poem "Glass Ceiling", he writes about a young boy and a lesson he learned from his grandma who has died. The common theme shared in these two poems is death and that people often hide their identities and have different emotins. I think these are two very well written poems.

Robinson's poem probably surprised a lot of readers when he wrote that the main character, Richard Cory, "put a bullet through his head." The main point of this poem was to show how people mask their feelings and aren't always what they appear to be. Richard Cory seemed to live a perfectly good life throughout the poem, he was rich, handsome, and most likely successful. Then at the end he ended up taking his life, which shows that the people we always see and judge can be living a completely different life than what we think. Hummer's poems main idea was about the lesson a boy learned from his deceased grandma, and how she's still in her thoughts.
The similarity would be that in Robinson's poem people saw him and thought he had a perfect life, they misjudged him. In Hummer's poem people probably misjudged the grandma and thought she was weak and couldn't do much. The difference in these poems is how they talk about death. Richard Cory killed himself by shooting a bullet through his head, where as the grandma probably died peacefully in a