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    Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem "Richard Cory" and T.R. Hummer’s poem "Glass Ceiling‚" they both show how in reality people are shielding themselves from their true emotions and this can lead to very bad situations as we have seen in real-life. When hiding your true feelings or emotions‚ you tend to put on this fake show for yourself and everyone around you. These two poets clearly reflect on this concept and even in our daily lives there’s most likely someone around you putting this "shield" up to comfort

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    When selecting certain themes from American literature we run into similarities in common stories. When reading “Richard Cory” and “We Wear the Mask” we run into very similar themes‚ masks obviously. Themes sometimes overlap in stories any story from any time we can see that the themes define the story are the soul. The many short texts I’ve recently read have been set in America in the time after the civil war‚ with racism. Do we really hide who we are? The poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence

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    The saying “do not judge a book by its cover” is true because appearances can often be deceiving. A person can easily act calm‚ cool‚ and collected‚ but in reality feel like their world is falling apart. In both the poem “Richard Cory” and the book The Great Gatsby‚ Richard Cory and Gatsby both appear to be well put together gentlemen with an ideal lifestyle. However taking a look below the surface it’s easy to see that this is only a clever façade to mask their true feelings. In both works irony

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    of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson show one cannot fully rely on what other people say in certain situations. The reader does not know exactly what happened to Richard Cory. All the reader has to go by is what the townspeople say. The townspeople say Richard Cory went home and put a bullet in his head. That sounds like he kills himself‚ but it might not be that way. The reader does not know anything about what Richard Cory feels from this poem so he cannot

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    least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask‚ and he will tell you the truth‚” wrote Oscar Wilde‚ alluding to the fact that people conceal themselves by nature. When we speak of ourselves‚ we hide away parts of our character we do not wish to reveal‚ whether purposely or accidentally. Although both Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and Edward Arlington Robinson in his poem “Richard Cory” explore the concept of the figurative masks worn to conceal parts of oneself‚ Robinson’s

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    idea were Richard Cory‚ The Growth of Lorraine‚ and Miniver Cheevy. By analyzing these poems and how they are written‚ one can see that they cover the same idea and all depict a protagonist stuck in a world they do not want to be in. All three poems show the reader that our fate is not always the way we would like it to be. In Richard Cory‚ his life seemed great considering he had money‚ education‚ and was loved by the town but in the end it turns out there was something missing. Richard may have

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    Richard Cory was an aristocrat and he was superior than the rest of the community which was from a working class. In both the poem and the song the narrator is of a working class. In the song it says “ But I work in his factory” this phrase could mean that he had to work in order to make a living because he wasn’t born into society. In the poem it mentions “So on we worked‚ and waited for the light” this line could mean that they were from working class as well and had to work until the end because

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    to understand how my life would be back in México by looking back at my heritage I understood that living in Mexico would have been a totally different life. I was just ten years of age however I had already began stressing over worldwide issues and how it will influence our future. I understood that many children my age were extremely busy watching kid’s shows and playing video games.I really wanted to research and come down to my own decision about significant world themes. Everything

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    Robinson’s poem “Richard Cory”‚ the author depicted a gentleman who was well-educated‚ polite‚ and “rich – yes‚ richer than a king”. In the people’s view‚ Richard Cory was a happy person. They admired him‚ and they “thought that he was everything‚ to make us wish that we were in his place.” However‚ Mr. Cory‚ “one calm summer night‚ went home and put a bullet through his head” (Robinson). Nobody can image that this “happiest man on the earth” would commit a suicide. Nevertheless‚ was Richard Cory really happy

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    Claudia Garces In the poem “Richard Cory”‚ Edwin Arlington Robinson argues that ones outer shell can be deceiving‚ never envy your neighbors fortune. Richard Cory glides through town glowing looking “richer than a king”(9) pretending to have all the happiness anyone ever imagined. This alone causes the envy of the entire town. They probably will never know if he is truly happy or if all this is just another front. “We people”(2) who are never satisfied with our own goals and achievements

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