Essay On Roller Skate Man
In this day and age, many of us struggle to realise that every single one of us is fighting a battle that no one else knows about. The two poems provide a bleak perspective of the everyday lives belonged to the people we may find around us. There are many similar and different characteristics that were used to compose, Roller Skate Man by Raymond Souster and Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson that make them both individually unique in many ways of truly capturing the reader. Both of the authors convey the importance of understanding the key ideas by translating these messages that they are try to say to us through characters. These two stories deliver tremendously heart-wrenching themes, however executing them in very different ways.
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For instance, their settings both take place on the streets. How the poems are written, we learn that this is where most of the interaction happens between these characters and the outside world. Roller Skate Man presents himself in a rather lowly environment, the idea of confinement found in “spit, old butts, chewed gum”. With the other poem, the way Richard Cory carries himself whenever he “went downtown” was always uplifting and inviting that “people on the pavement looked at him”. At the end of the day, we must recognize that even the defining differences in life which may be the colour of our skin and ethnicity, there are things that we share that remain the same as human beings, regardless whether poor or rich. Even somebody like Richard Cory who comes from a whole other world compared to the crippled man, both experience pain in some way, shape or form. Richard is pressured to live up to the expectations that comes from his peers. Roller Skate Man who is as equally trapped in a world of isolation, carries a burden on himself knowing his existence depends on the sole purpose of being looked down upon as the “flotsam among the jetsam of this world”. Another similarity between the two people is that they are both outcasts. No one really bothers to communicate with the two men, instead others sit back and judge. Just because Richard and the little dude don’t say
For instance, their settings both take place on the streets. How the poems are written, we learn that this is where most of the interaction happens between these characters and the outside world. Roller Skate Man presents himself in a rather lowly environment, the idea of confinement found in “spit, old butts, chewed gum”. With the other poem, the way Richard Cory carries himself whenever he “went downtown” was always uplifting and inviting that “people on the pavement looked at him”. At the end of the day, we must recognize that even the defining differences in life which may be the colour of our skin and ethnicity, there are things that we share that remain the same as human beings, regardless whether poor or rich. Even somebody like Richard Cory who comes from a whole other world compared to the crippled man, both experience pain in some way, shape or form. Richard is pressured to live up to the expectations that comes from his peers. Roller Skate Man who is as equally trapped in a world of isolation, carries a burden on himself knowing his existence depends on the sole purpose of being looked down upon as the “flotsam among the jetsam of this world”. Another similarity between the two people is that they are both outcasts. No one really bothers to communicate with the two men, instead others sit back and judge. Just because Richard and the little dude don’t say