English Project

I've got a project due sometime in the future for my English class; I have to compare the story of "Paul's Case" and the poem of "Richard Cory". "Paul's Case" is too long to copy out but here's "Richard Cory"



Whenever Richard Cory went downtown
we people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed
and he was always human when he talked;
But he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning," and he glittered when he walked

And he was rich - yes, richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited fot the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.


- Edwin Arlington Robinson





Cheers,