► Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” (p. 616)
1. What are the townspeople supposed to learn from Richard Cory’s suicide?
The townspeople should learn that money is not everything. Rich people are also unhappy. What is seen is not always the reality.
2. What are we supposed to learn from the townspeople’s attitudes?
In townspeople’s eye Richard Cory was the perfect person. They admire him and respected him, they wanted to be like him.
3. What exactly did the townspeople envy about Richard Cory?
The townspeople admires his manner, the way he talks and walks. Also the fact that he was a wealthy man, wealther than a king.
4. Do you think their envy was justified?
I don’t think that the townspeople’s envy was justified because even though
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William Shakespeare, [When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes] (p. 848)
1. What is the difference between what the speaker once thought was important and what ultimately proved to be so?
The speaker in the beginning of the poem was in distress, he thought he have been an outcast, a unliked being, and rejected by God because his prayers are like cries to the havens. He was feeling miserable and weak and poor. But at the end when he realize what he have his mood becomes better. As he say if he think about someone he loves he started to realize that he is not in a bad position at all. He is the luckiest person in the world luckier than the wealthy kings of the world. In the end he realizes that if he have love in his life that is the most precious thing he have in the world.
2. At first, what did the speaker claim to envy?
In the first line the speaker was envy that his fortunes has comedown he has become an outcast which he doesn’t like.
3. What conclusion did he draw about those feelings of envy?
In the end he was at ease with himself. He is now satisfied with his position. He is claiming that he is wealthier than many kings in the world because he has love in his