Richard Cory : Hidden Hazards

Richard Cory : Hidden Hazards
Wouldn’t it be great to have everything and be the one everyone longed to be? Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem “Richard Cory” describes Richard Cory as being wealthy, generous, handsome, and courteous. Most of us have these characteristics set in our mind of being the “perfect” person, but this poem illustrates that you cannot determine another person’s happiness by their appearance. The elements of hazard in this poem are inevitable because of the shocking outcome at the end of this poem.
Beginning with the first stanza, Robinson describes Cory: “We people on the pavement looked at him / He was a gentleman fro...