Richard Cory Modernism Essay

Modernism literature works were breaking the rules of the Victorian literature era. The post World War 1 writing style was designed to emphasize the inner-self and consciousness. "Richard Cory" is a Modernist poem. Elements like the time period, the target audience, and the idea about all truth becoming relative reinforce Modernism.
Edwin Arlington Robinson published "Richard Cory" in 1897 which falls around the Modernism time period of the early 1900s to 1965. Being so close to the beginning of Modernism Robinson's poem is considered to be Modernism.
The target audience of this poem is the lower to middle/working class. Modernist writers wrote pieces of the people. Richard Cory, in the poem, was a person who people looked up to and the "people on the pavement" didn't see how he was hurting just like they were. The authors of Modernist literature targeted this audience to give them a world outside of their own, like
when they look up to Richard Cory they see that everything is perfect and okay on the surface.
The biggest shock in the poem is the last line when Richard Cory takes his own life. Robinson shares a truth with his audience that money can't bring happiness to people. Readers get the inner feelings of the workers who wait for the light and curse the bread and the people who are richer than a king. The truth about both groups is they are unhappy and the workers think Richard Cory is happy because he has money but Modernist writers make all truths relative.
The Modernist poem, "Richard Cory", has the correct time period, target audience, and truths being relative which are all qualities of being Modernism literary works. Robinson makes his poem emphasize the inner-self and consciousness that post World War 1 writers did.

This Modern Moment

At this moment in time when I am typing these words out it is different from what I would've typed five years ago. This moment is different because I think different and my surroundings are different. In this modern moment I see the world in a different perspective than I would have five years ago. Not only that but the world has changed in five years just like I have. I am obviously older then I was five years ago so my thoughts and views on topics come from an more mature mind as a junior in high school rather than a sixth grader about to go into Jr. high.

My Modernist

I chose Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) because we have the same last name so I thought it would be cool to learn about him.

I Can Read

Watch me attempt to read Dr. Seuss' Fox in Sox!!

This is a real tongue twister :O

Spring Vocab #5

Brouhaha- an uproar
Cloy- overly sweet
Demeanor- a persons manners towards others
Deference- to easily go with others wants and ideas
Enigmatic- puzzling
Definitive- precisely outlining
Bumptious- very demanding behavior
Choleric- bad tempered
Bulwark- a wall with a similar structured being used as defence
Curtail- to cut short
Adamant- to be unwilling to try new things
Profligate- to be recklessly wasteful
Mawkish- to be very annoying when emotional
Thwart- to prevent something form taking place
Onus- burden
Requisite- necessary
Mollify- to claim
Sartorial- pertaining to tailors
Presentiment- having a sense of a future occurrence
Impromptu- reforming without rehearsal
Forbearance- prohibited
Remit- sending or canceling

The First Seven Years

The end is definitely an unexpected twist on the story. I wonder if Miriam ever ended up with Sobel? I thought it was cute how Feld was trying to set Max and Miriam up together but it was odd at the same time because he was in college and she was 19. I thought it was predictable that Miriam and Max wouldn't have a connection because they seemed so different by how they were characterized.

I am Here

So far this semester, in just this course, I feel like I am doing really well and I get the tools and materials more this year than last semester. I need to improve in keeping up with my reading but on a grading scale I feel like I am getting an A in the class. On what I am getting from the class outside the class is also an A because we are learning tools that can help is in other classes and in the future.

In Mildred's Parlor

When Montag reads the poem "Dover Beach" to Mildred and her friends, Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Bowles, in the parlor. A better poem for this seen I think would be
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-husband-my-soldier-my-hero-my-friend/

ESSAY POSTGAME ANALYSIS

On my essay in class on F451 I thought I did well on identifying the major themes that were reinforced in the end of the novel. For next time I can improve on the examples I give to support what I am saying and the lit terms I use as supporting elements. Based on that I would give myself a B

I Can Read!

MY F451

Summary: Montag was the typical middle class man. He was a firefighter with a wife and a nice house. As a firefighter he had to burn books and thought nothing of it until he met a girl, Clarisse, who made him question his own thoughts. One day on the job a woman went with her books and her house. Montag had that engraved in her brain and wondered why someone would die for books. His curiosity was going out of control and he was stealing books from work and hiding them at home. When he showed his wife the collection he has been making she was so shocked. Montag went to Faber to ask him about the bible. The fireman captian, Beatty, was told that Montag had books in his house so Montag had to burn his own house. He killed Beatty and the hound and started running. At the end of the book Montag finds other people who ran after their houses got burned.

Bradbury's style and diction helped me understand the point he was trying to get across because every word had a meaning and reason behind him using tat word. This style of writing gave each word a bigger impact and made the story easier to understand if you knew all the words.

To Modern or Postmodern

About David Foster Wallace quote.
In simpler terms, I feel that he is saying our world is boring and people are becoming boring. Because of this authors are running out of creative, fresh, and new ideas to write about so they are just criticizing everything that is wrong with the world hoping you do something while they do nothing.

The Time of My Life

With the time we were given in class to work I was reading to get a little ahead and so I can comprehend what I was reading.

Spring Vocab 2

1 Patronage- power to control appointments

2 Cadence- rythmic flow of a sequence of sound and words

3 Suffused- to overspread something with a liquid

4 Sieve- a strainer

5 Centrifuge- a machine that has a compartment spun around an axis to separate contained materials of different densities

6 Dentifrice- toothpaste

7 Leisure- doing something withou a hurry in free time

8 Vessel- hollow container to hold liquid

9 Saccharine- excessively sweet (first artificial sweetener)

10 Phonograph- record player

11 Profusion- abundance