Sample answer:
The people of the town in which Richard Cory lives belong to a low socioeconomic background, while Richard Cory is a rich, well-mannered gentleman, envied by everyone in town, as seen in these lines:
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.
By choosing one of the townsfolk as narrator, Robinson relates everything Richard Cory does and has through envy. This perspective also helps highlight the shock of Cory’s suicide at the end of the poem. Cory’s suicide depicts irony, as Cory was a man who seemed to have everything but chose to give it all up by taking his own life.
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Answer and Explanation:
Petrarch uses metaphors in his poem to intensify the idealization of the beloved woman, the loneliness of not getting her and even how the speaker of the poem feels about an unattainable love. The use of a figure of speech allows Petrarch to associate love with intense, yet subjective and poetic concepts, enriching his text and promoting a broad understanding of the feelings he wishes to convey, all involving love and the impossibility of having it.
An example of the use of metaphor can be seen when Petrarch characterizes the beloved woman, stating that she is able to "make a paradise on earth" and that she is "the light I loved so much." In addition, he uses metaphor as showing how sad it feels to not reach love, when he says he feels like "In a great storm on an unprotected raft."
Answer:
B
Explanation:
when you're constantly being reminded of something by somebody, it gets annoying