Preview

Luke Havergal Suicide

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
400 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Luke Havergal Suicide
The poem Luke Havergal explains what happens now how people wish they could be someone else and it explains about a man named Richard Corey, who seemed to have everything, looks, money, and a nice life, the author portrays him as a wealthy man who other people envy, but it gives a good representation of the saying "Do not judge a book by its cover." because even though they Portray him as being "perfect" it says that in one summer day everything came to an end and Luke Havergal the man everyone envied had committed suicide. This shows that people may look/act one way, but you never know what someone is actually going through or what problems they're facing. We didn't know much about the character apart from being envied, good looking and rich as a king.
This poem still relates to the world we live in because many people still commit suicide without anyone knowing what they've planned, or what they're going through many people may
…show more content…
Anyhow, it surprised me and probably many of the people who have read the poem for the first time. There have been many novels, poems, books, movies, on this topic one of my favorites is Gatsby it is similar in the sense that they are rich and seem to have everything but the Gatsby character was unhappy because he couldn't find love maybe it is the same for this poem. This poem lets you think of why Luke Havergal could have done it and also teaches you to be grateful for who you are and not wish you were someone else because someone else might have worse problems than you and you simply might not know it. "He glittered when he walked" shows how people thought of him". "And then Richard Corey, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head" on a calm summer night explains that nobody knew what he had

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    After I read the poem, I think why do I follow people’s mind to live. It's always about owning our own lives, being responsible for who we are through the choices we make.…

    • 285 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In a lot of ways, this poem reminds me of Jay Asher's novel 13 Reasons Why. Hannah Baker is a teenage girl who leaves behind seven tapes, front and back, listing a reason she decided to end her life. While Robinson, in Richard Cory, never gives us a reason as to why Richard Cory…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The part that surprises me about the poem was how fast things changed. One moment I think about a lovely couple in young love and them it just changes at the end with twist of “growling…Hell’s Angels.” One moment I thought it was going to be a happy poem about this couple and then a train with a “black window” and head lights on in the day. I start think that something was different about this poem once the author introduced the train.…

    • 130 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    This part of the poem, lines 5 to 8, shifts from an accusatory tone to one full of reflection. The speaker emphasizes desire’s control with the repetition of the words “desire” and “too long”. This entails that the speaker is aware of the damage desire has done to his life. With the use of an extended metaphor, the speaker mentions how “too long, too long, asleep thou hast me brought, who should my mind to higher things prepare.” This denotes how the longing of non-materialistic things has blinded the speaker for a great amount of time. He acknowledges himself as part of the problem since he barely noticed desire’s affect and now believes there are bigger and better things that need more…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    This poem really made me think about how much sadness I hold onto when really all I need to do is remember the good things and focus on the positive.…

    • 1218 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    I enjoyed studying this poem for it's underlying poignancy. As a reader, I was struck by the bleak tone of the closing lines. Having taken account of each and every aspect of his life; 'I balanced all...'; the speaker views the future as meaningless and futile: 'The years to come seemed a waste of breath...'. The final lines of the poem reflect the grim logic of a man who seems to regard his life as pointless and is ready to meet his fate 'somewhere among the clouds above'. The underyling poignancy is extremely evident at this stage as the reader feels that such a death as to die in action would be his final adventurous exploit.…

    • 363 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Emily Dickinson in her poem “If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking” wrote that “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain” These lines flawlessly provoke the humanity that nestles in our heart. We would like to conclude by saying that the person who commits suicide or attempts suicide has already given up on life. He feels lost and is devoid of any hope to climb the ladders that he has fallen from. The whole life already seems like a punishment to him. Therefore to a person who has been punished enough already it seems comic when the state punishes the person for being “punished”. A person so traumatised, whose visions of life are blurred must be medically treated. He…

    • 384 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Writing a Suicide Essay-26th, 2010 Writing a suicide essay can be difficult. The reason is because suicides often have troubling circumstances involved. Why else would a person resort to taking their own lives. Usually it is a window into utter despair and tragedy. When writing the introduction to an essay of this sort, it is very important that you focus on the point. It is very easy to get off the key topic on projects like these.…

    • 529 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    I have a vivid memory of the day that I found out a person in my life had killed themselves. I watched from the couch as two cars pulled into the driveway, and a handful of people I knew walked into our house. This seemed to be anything but a just a friendly visit. I was asked to go upstairs, and I did as I was told. As I waited to be called back down, I stared out the window. The sky was cloudy, fitting for the mood of what was about to be revealed. I remember wondering to myself, “Maybe he killed himself…”. I didn’t understand the gravity of that thought, but when I was called to the living room and sat down, I had a feeling that my guess had been right. And it was. A person who I had only known to be kind, funny, and loving had taken his life. He left two daughters, a wife, and the rest of us behind. Including me. This event has stuck with me ever since it happened. Suicides, especially in youth, is a growing epidemic.…

    • 1468 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Thesis For 13 Reasons Why

    • 700 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Although the entire story is a sad one, it shares lessons that every person should learn. Lessons about kindness and lessons about the impacts even little things can have on a person’s life. This is not a story that glorifies suicide, but rather shows its horrors. It also strives to show signs to those reading or watching the story that a person close to them could be contemplating…

    • 700 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    In conclusion, suicide is once again one of the major issues in the world today. Suicide is something that goes deeper than someone just killing themselves. It touches upon everyone who knew and cared for that person. These people remaining now have to learn to live life without someone they may have look to for guidance, and this can be very difficult for certain people to overcome. All in all suicide is something that should be taken seriously, because if it is not then we will continue to see people who are taking their own lives when there is always a better…

    • 1492 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Suicide has quickly become a social phenomenon. As much as this is hidden from news reports and other public media, this phenomenon is a reality.…

    • 1292 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “Life is Fine” is a perfect example that demonstrates an endless scenario when people come to death as a permanent solution for everything. The poem consists six stanzas, and the first four stanzas are the depictions of the speaker’s attempts to commit suicide. His determination is highlighted in the first stanza, particularly in these two sentences: “I tried to think but couldn’t; So I jumped in and sank.” Through this, his intellectual impasse- a principle that leads to him committing suicide is illustrated. However, his attempt fails eventually: “I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried!” Based on this, the audience can interpret that…

    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    My understanding of the poem was to figure out if I was going to go through with killing my step-brother or the neighbor’s child or my last chose, to sacrifice myself. This poem had a lot of meaning. The poem meant the world is a beautiful place without continuous violence, people being unhappy, people stressing, some people dying, and even some people being on drugs or people starving or people striving to do good things. This meant to me that I need to take life and my education much more serious because many young people like me don’t have the same opportunities as I do. This also made me realize that I’m extremely fortunate to have a big house and new clothes to wear to school, and dinner ready everyday when I get home from school. Some people don’t have the same privileges as me. Some people are homeless and don’t have clean smelling clothes like I do and even some people don’t clean smelling clothes like I do. Some don’t have food to eat. The contrasts that were made were the good and bad things that occur daily in life. For example, when the poet contrasts “The world is a beautiful place to be born into, if you don’t mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn’t half so bad if it isn’t you.” This could also mean people don’t care what happens to other people, as long as nothing bad happens to them. My group created still images to create what we thought the image of the quote might look like. Our first image was of; people of high qualifications such as Doctors, Lawyers, Officers etc, standing tall pointing or looking down upon people of lower qualifications such as cleaners, bus drivers etc. Another still image we created was; the people of high qualifications we controlling the lower class people, as the lower class people were weak, lifeless, and in positions like a dummy or puppet and the higher people were making them moving. The still images were very useful because you got to understand what might have been…

    • 1289 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    His poem is not divorced from our everyday lives whereas lots of conventional poems we generally read are. Even if conventional poetry is indirectly connected to our reality, many readers have difficulties to find meanings from the poetry and apply them to their real lives. I think poetry is worth reading when it is humane enough so that people can draw meanings from it. If it insists on its conventional styles and forms too much, it becomes not humane anymore. Therefore, his thought is also applicable to this era, in particular, when everything changes so fast ever and so many ideas are overflowing here and there that many of us are confused about what paths to follow, while not realizing that clinging to conventional ways is not always the best strategy to live our…

    • 1600 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays