Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, 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 that he was everything
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 Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
1. some example of metonymy and synecdoche and explain how they work. what do they contribute to the effect of the poem?
2. describe the speaker. what is the effect of using we for the speaker instead of I? could one say that "We people on the pavement" is a kind of ynecdoche? why?
3. other examples of other figures of speech and explain how they work and what they bring to the poem. and also the example of the irony. consider how both figures and irony bring out the "point" of the poem.