Thursday, March 15, 2012

Journal #14

Journal #14 - E. A. Robinson Poems

Realism – The theory or practice in art and literature of fidelity to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization of the most typical views, details, and surroundings of the subject.

Read the following poems and write a detailed description for each of the title characters and explain how each is an example of the “real” instead of the “ideal.”

“Richard Cory“ (497)
Richard Cory was rich and very smart that everyone was jealous of. His name Richard brings out the term rich and Cory ‘core’. On the outside he is this perfect person, but in his core he is this unhappy person who thinks he has nothing.
Richard Cory was an idealistic image to the townspeople because he was rich and ‘king like’ to them. They thought he had everything, but really Richard Cory felt like he had nothing and was very unhappy so he killed himself.

“Miniver Cheevy” (497)
Miniver sits around fantasizing instead of doing things about it. He wanted to be a knight. His name is like a ‘minimal achiever’. He lived in the past and wanted to be born in a better time period. It became his whole life and became an obsession. His real life is boring and empty. He used alcohol to escape from reality. His ideal life was in his fantasy life with knights.

“Mr. Flood’s Party” (498)
Mr.Flood is lonely so he is drowning himself with drinking. He is ‘flooding’ himself with it. He could have alienated his friends with his behavior or they have all died. Mr.Flood has been caught in an area of change and he has been left behind. He is also living in the past which is ideal. His real life is sad, lonely, and drunk.

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