What Is The Mood Of The Poem Richard Cory

1.What do you think were Richard Cory’s thoughts shortly before he “put a bullet through his head? In 150 words, set forth his thoughts and actions (what he sees and does). If you wish, you can write in the first person, from Cory’s point of view. Further, if you wish, your essay can be form of a suicide note.
Several writers write about death and appearances. In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the writer tries to interconnect several effects. Robinson’s poem is about a rich male that commits suicide, and the opinions of the people in town that watch him in his ordinary life. Robinson is communicating that external appearances are not always what they seem, a that money does not always make a person happy. 
Through the
We learn here that our speaker is tired and hungry. But interestingly, he's not shopping for food. He's shopping for images. Maybe the speaker is making a comment on American consumer culture here. He's so bombarded by different images that he doesn't think of food directly. So our speaker goes into the "neon fruit supermarket." It's bright and shiny. It probably has fluorescent lights. It might even be garish. The speaker says that he dreams of Whitman's "enumerations." meaning that he hopes the supermarket will hold a glimpse of the world Whitman spoke of in his poetry. Whitman would lovingly enumerate all the types of people and things in America. As he enters the supermarket, filled with tons of fruits and vegetables, perhaps the speaker imagines making his own kind of
He's asking his imaginary friend for directions. He's actually asking about his life's direction, and there's not much of an answer. The supermarket is closing, and both got nowhere to go. There's a sense of desperation here. Whitman apparently had a long beard and the speaker asks the imaginary friend to use it as a compass, which strikes me as both hilarious and handy. The speaker then tells us, in a parenthetical statement, that this whole trip to the supermarket is "absurd." He calls their little imagined shopping trip an "odyssey," also known as an epic journey. It's almost as if the speaker is stepping out of himself and acknowledging the fact that it's totally weird that he is dreaming shopping with Whitman in a California