Analysis of "Richard Cory" The literary princi

The literary principle to be examined in this brief analysis of Edward Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory," is that poets select language that has emotionally charged meaning in order to capture mood or express specific ideas. Robin's poem describes a wealthy, physically attractive, graceful, friendly, and envied resident of a small town. Richard Cory is seen by Robinson's narrator - who speaks for his fellow less affluent townspeople as indicated by the use of [phrases such as "we people" (Robinson 1690) - as a person for whom life presents few difficulties. Where the people of the town "thought that he was everything/to make us wish that we were in his place (Robinson 1691)," the reality is that underneath his "quietly arrayed" exterior

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