I could go on forever about this song, having already picked the poem apart for an English paper. There are two really ironic things here: first, that this guy who looks so fortunate could want to kill himself, and second, that the narrator STILL wants to be like Richard Cory at the end of the song. It's as though the narrator doesn't get it. The very thing that made Cory appear so happy could have made him feel alienated from other people, thus leading to his suicide.
I could go on forever about this song, having already picked the poem apart for an English paper. There are two really ironic things here: first, that this guy who looks so fortunate could want to kill himself, and second, that the narrator STILL wants to be like Richard Cory at the end of the song. It's as though the narrator doesn't get it. The very thing that made Cory appear so happy could have made him feel alienated from other people, thus leading to his suicide.