ANALYSIS (Richard Cory by Edwin Alington Robinson)

• ·         Richard Cory was a poem with 4 stanzas, 10 syllables per line and with an a-b-a-b rhyme pattern.

• ·         Richard Cory was the main character of the poem, he was describe as a person who got it all. He was represented in the poem as every person wanted to be.

• ·         The voice in the poem in describing the Richard Cory was sound a little bit proud of the good qualities and attainment of Richard Cory.

• ·         The setting of the poem was not mentioned.

• ·         The conflict was from man to himself. Richard Cory being seen as a perfect person by other was having a hard time in doing what other people expects him to do and so Richard Cory ended his life and from that we can also say that the conflict is also a man to man, which is seen in the other people expectation vs. Richard Cory.

• ·         The poem of Edwin Robinson started by describing Richard Cory, how people see him, know that people want to be like him and any person would be willing to take the place of Richard Cory. But at the end of the poem Richard Cory, who had it all put a gun into his head and shot himself to death. The poem implies that there is no perfect person here on earth and it doesn’t always mean that a person is strong based on his outer appearance; try to look what’s inside of the person. 
• HYDEE LAUZON BUEZA