Friday, August 9, 2013

Identify the point of view and the parts of the poem that reveal the point of view. Why is the point of view significant? Richard Cory is a poem...

The point of view is from a person living in the town. 
Someone who does not know Richard Cory personally.  Someone who admires him from a
distance.  He identifies himself as "We people in the town" (l.2)  and it says "we
thought that he was everything/ To make us wish we were in his place"  The person is
poor and says "we went without meat and cursed the bread" and Richard Cory was rich.  He
was admired by those in the lower classes who felt he had everything.The point of view
is important because if this were told from Richard Cory's point of view, he would not
have been so deeply admired by those around him. His life would not have been perfect.
 He obviously did not have the perfect life since he found it necessary to take his life
with a bullet. 

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