Full-Name Basis: "John Gorham" is about two lovers who are breaking up throughout they address each other as "John Gorham" and "Jane Wayland".Driven to Suicide: Rich, successful, popular Richard Cory goes home one night and kills himself, and no one knows why.(This poem was published in 1916 as the United States teetered on the brink of intervening in World War I.) Some random shouter on a street corner is preaching about how Patriotic Fervor and greed are leading the country to the brink of disaster. The Cassandra: Unsurprisingly, in "Cassandra".At the end, Miniver "called it fate/And kept on drinking." Miniver, a contemporary (1910) businessman, mourns that he was "born too late" and wishes that he could have been a knight or warrior in the times of ancient Greece or the Medici. Born in the Wrong Century: The sentiment "to be born too late" is mocked in the satirical ballad "Miniver Cheevy".She's responding to his entreaties to "be calm" by saying she will be as cold as ice. Awful Wedded Life: The entirety of "The Clinging Vine" is a rant from an angry wife to her jealous husband, who is going out to cheat on her. This collection includes Robinson's most famous poems, such as "Richard Cory" which is by far the best remembered and has joined the canon of School Study Media, and another famous poem, "Miniver Cheevy". The poems deal with small-town New England life (as opposed to rural New England life which was the favorite theme of Robinson's contemporary Robert Frost). Many of the poems are set in "Tilbury Town", a fictional Maine village that is basically a stand-in for the real Gardiner, ME, where Robinson was born in raised. It is a collection of seven Robinson books of poetry. Collected Poems is a 1921 book of poetry by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
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