Jeri Lynn
06-20-2009, 10:59 AM
I am helping my son do a SOAPTone for The Edwin Arlington Robinson poem called Richard Corey.
I have not analyzed a poem for 30 years and am having trouble on the Audience and the Subject of the poem.
Could anyone help me?
This is the poem:
Whenever Richard Corey went down town,
We the people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favorored and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still 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 he was everythng
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread;
And Richard Corey , one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
I've been able to figure out the Speaker, Occassion, Purpose, Tone and Theme, but am unsure about the Audience and Subject.
Thanks for any help!!!
I have not analyzed a poem for 30 years and am having trouble on the Audience and the Subject of the poem.
Could anyone help me?
This is the poem:
Whenever Richard Corey went down town,
We the people on the pavement looked at him;
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favorored and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still 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 he was everythng
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread;
And Richard Corey , one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
I've been able to figure out the Speaker, Occassion, Purpose, Tone and Theme, but am unsure about the Audience and Subject.
Thanks for any help!!!