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Notes
"Richard Cory." Poetry for Students. Ed. Mary Ruby. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 115-124. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2013.
1.First published in E. A. Robinson’s second book of poems, Children of the Night, “Richard Cory” is one of the short, lyrical and dramatic character sketches that Robinson is now best known for. (page 115)
2.The very embodiment of that materialistic dream, Cory kills himself for some unspecified reason, perhaps a spiritual emptiness or alienation from his fellow human beings. (page 115)
3.His death leaves the people who wanted to be like him wondering about the purpose of life. (page115)
4.A descendent of the colonial poet Anne Bradstreet, Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, in 1869 and grew up in the nearby town of Gardiner. (page 115)
5.Robinson, were descended from old New England families. (page 116)
6.Robinson’s father retired from his successful mercantile business at the age of 51, moving the family to Gardiner at that time so his sons could enjoy a better education. (page 116)
7.He developed an interest in poetry while still in high school, and he was encouraged by a physician neighbor who shared his interest. (page 116)
8.He published his first poems in a local newspaper and, when he attended Harvard University for two years, in the school’s publication The Harvard Advocate. (page 116)
9.The poem’s last line is pivotal and surprising because Richard Cory is powerful and in control, and a man such as that would seem to have no reason to kill himself. In the first stanza, he is shown to be different from the “people on the pavement,” because he is wealthy and powerful. (page 118)
10.As this poem demonstrates, success is relative. (page 118)
"Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935)." Modern American Literature. 5th ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. 93-97. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2013.
11.He has an ascetic hatred for the trite word, the facile
"Richard Cory." Poetry for Students. Ed. Mary Ruby. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1999. 115-124. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2013.
1.First published in E. A. Robinson’s second book of poems, Children of the Night, “Richard Cory” is one of the short, lyrical and dramatic character sketches that Robinson is now best known for. (page 115)
2.The very embodiment of that materialistic dream, Cory kills himself for some unspecified reason, perhaps a spiritual emptiness or alienation from his fellow human beings. (page 115)
3.His death leaves the people who wanted to be like him wondering about the purpose of life. (page115)
4.A descendent of the colonial poet Anne Bradstreet, Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, in 1869 and grew up in the nearby town of Gardiner. (page 115)
5.Robinson, were descended from old New England families. (page 116)
6.Robinson’s father retired from his successful mercantile business at the age of 51, moving the family to Gardiner at that time so his sons could enjoy a better education. (page 116)
7.He developed an interest in poetry while still in high school, and he was encouraged by a physician neighbor who shared his interest. (page 116)
8.He published his first poems in a local newspaper and, when he attended Harvard University for two years, in the school’s publication The Harvard Advocate. (page 116)
9.The poem’s last line is pivotal and surprising because Richard Cory is powerful and in control, and a man such as that would seem to have no reason to kill himself. In the first stanza, he is shown to be different from the “people on the pavement,” because he is wealthy and powerful. (page 118)
10.As this poem demonstrates, success is relative. (page 118)
"Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935)." Modern American Literature. 5th ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999. 93-97. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Feb. 2013.
11.He has an ascetic hatred for the trite word, the facile