JaniceAntal

Money and Happiness Leads a Road to Death

Out of the five Robinson works that we had to read the one that I liked the most was Richard Corey. The whole poem had the lingering idea of money doesn't buy happiness and apperences can be deceiving. I personally enjoyed how in the beginning of the poem it started out with the idea that he was loved by all and they all believed that ingeneral he was happy too. The lines:

And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

This shows that no matter how high on a pedestal the towns people put him, he still kept his feet grounded. He didn't feel that he was anything special but yet society thought differently. When he kills himself because of this internal aggresion it comes as a shock because of how happy everything seemed. They went on with their work not knowing anything until that day. It just reinstates the cliche appearences can be deceiving.