Edwin Arlington Robinson was a well-known American poet who wrote a number of different works over the course of his life. Two of these works seem to touch on somewhat similar issues, although they differ in some important ways. These two poems are “Richard Corey” and “Miniver Cheevy.” These works appear to be stories about men who are unhappy with their lives, but who seek resolution of those feelings through different methods. Both Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy were unhappy men who tried to hide away from their unhappiness by seeking resolution from the outside world, and ultimately engaged in self-destructive behavior of one kind or another, but there are also some important differences between the two. While Richard may have been the one who was more successful by society's standards, it was Miniver Cheevy who was able to find enough happiness to keep himself going. Richard Corey is a man who, by the end of the poem, clearly appeared to be deeply troubled. Suicide is definitely the most obvious hint that an individual was dealing with some serious underlying problems during their life. It wasn't obvious just how troubled he was until the final line of the poem, but it becomes …show more content…
Richard Cory's solution was to obtain wealth and the respect of his peers, while Miniver Cheevy tried to resolve his feelings by dreaming about a better life and drinking. From the outside, it would appear to those who knew them that Richard Cory was the more successful one. He had all the money and respect, while Miniver was stuck with a daydream and a bottle. However, while Miniver may have been seen as significantly less happy or successful on the outside, at least his story did not end in his demise. When these two stories are compared, it really does bring into question some common notions that people have about success and
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examines the lives of people who have achieved greatness in the world, to find out what makes them achieve greatness. Are there “secrets" and what we can learn from these outliers in order to become successful ourselves. Gladwell challenges our usual thoughts that the self-made man will succeed and proposes his own theory of how ordinary people become successful. While the book makes for an entertaining read, but not every argument of his is water-tight. In today’s society, a majority of people have come to think that the building blocks of success are within the personality and character of the individual.
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of several bestselling books typically inspect daily . life and had this article taken from his third book. He then explores why some . people attain success and others don’t. In his research, it was concluded that .
Undoubtedly, the novel Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell altered my perspective on the successful as well as how they ascended to the top. In his novel, Gladwell argues against the grossly oversimplified view that has become popular belief: the success of an individual hinges solely upon the individual. When discussing the lives of the successful, we have a tendency to concentrate on the internal factors influencing the success of the individual in question. Such factors include intelligence, drive, and other meritorious attributes. However, Malcolm Gladwell paints a different picture than the one we have already made up in our minds.
People tend to reach success in a number of different ways. Looking at the past, success was often reached in ways that would be looked at as both good and bad. Andrew Carnegie was very successful but reached that success at the expense of his workers, which is why many would refer to him as a robber baron today. Andrew Carnegie placed the workers of his steel company in a harmful working environment. These workers were on the job for twelve long hours, seven days a week, in dangerous working conditions.
A Look into Malcolm Gladwell's Recipe of Success: It May Not Be Your Fault You Are a Loser Have you ever wondered why Bill Gates is so prosperous, or why the Beatles became so famous? Many believe these wealthy tycoons got where they are today solely on dedication and hard work, but what if I told you that is not the case? Malcolm Gladwell, prominent author, digs deep into this interesting question and the misconceived notion of success in the interesting book Outliers. When looking through each chapter of the Outliers, Gladwell takes a success story and then analyzes it in great detail explaining why certain people are where they are today.
Comparingly, the poem “I Can Stand Him No Longer” is about a man who hates another person. He pretends as
In this poem, Cummings writes about a man and his wife, who lose their identities and eventually die without a single person in the world caring. He discusses the revolutionary change of seasons and how life is beautiful, but death is inevitable. His abstract style of writing and usage of the words “anyone” and “no one” conveys the major motifs of love, death, and loss of identity. Edward Estlin Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October of 1894. He began writing poems as early as 1904, but did not begin studying them until he attended High School in Cambridge.
The idea of success is viewed differently between the minds of individuals, but through all lenses reaching happiness is key. Defining the word success, Bob Dylan once wrote: “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” In Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle, she examines the hardships and challenges brought to her family as she grows up living an impoverished life. She depicts both of her parents’ flaws as she ages and begins to understand life from a more mature point of view.
Though Christopher McCandless attempted to separate himself from society, in order to achieve self-fulfillment, the stubborn nature of this reckless greenhorn led him to his unfortunate demise. Christopher McCandless’ stubborn personality causes him to leave a loving home in order to start a new beginning as “Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny '' (Krakauer 23). Chris “let them think they were right”, so they would think that he was seeing “their side of things'' when he was merely waiting for the right time to completely “knock them out of happiness only real when shared” (189) In a way we all can have high egos.
Every every waking minute is haunted by death, which keeps reminding him that better things are waiting for him beyond those gates. To enhance the theme of Discontentment, Edwin Robinson used nostalgia to contribute to the philosophy of naturalism. As he sighed, “Miniver scorned the gold he sought, but sore annoyed was he without it; Miniver thought, and thought, and thought, and thought about it” (Robinson 25-28). All Miniver dreams about is becoming rich and living this lavish lifestyle but he expects it to be handed to him with no work put forward.
Billy Collins appropriately created the title “Schoolsville” for this poem. The title is broken down and is imagined by readers of a little town occupied by former students who still act as they did in high school. From the beginning line, it is clear to the reader that the speaker is reminiscing his past by “glancing over my shoulder at the past,” (Collins 534). By stating, “I realize the number of students he has taught is enough to populate a small town,” also adds to the image created by the title (Collins 534). The speaker has taught so many years that his former students could populate a town.
Robinson seemed to be a poet to entertain the masses. He was a good poet I have to assume considering Theodore Roosevelt liked him enough to give him a job and encourage him to still write poetry. His poems seemed a little out there to me I had to read them at least twice to make sure I read the poem right the first time. I am curious to where he came about with his poem ideas because he didn’t have a bad life as far as I could tell compared to some of the other morbid seeming poets who had a rough life to draw from. The poem “Richard Cory” was easy to understand, but the first read through I did I thought it was a robot not a person with imagery to seem like one.
“Richard Cory” by Edwin Robinson was published in 1897. Richard is described as a classy, well liked, and rich gentleman. His surroundings is that of poverty and envy for him, yet he doesn’t get put himself above his fellow citizens. However; this is all we know of Mr. Richard Cory. “Richard Cory” is an outside look into an unknown, but interesting life.
“Lucinda Matlock” by Edgar Lee Masters and “Richard Corey” by Edwin Arlington Robinson are two poems that contrast each other primarily through the lives and deaths that Matlock and Corey. Lucinda Matlock lived a long enjoyable life with a large family that dealt with a lot of death throughout her life. Matlock was a free-spirited girl doing activities including the following: dances and playing snap-out. She found her future husband, James, in a romantic fashion during a beautiful moonlit summer night.
Equally, Richard Cory’s problems lead to his death in ways not presented in the poem, however, a large portion of people do not commit suicide unless they have problems that become too much for them to deal with. Richard Cory also had been educated and had a large amount of wealth so an untold problem would seem to be the only probable reason for him to commit