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re: Kurt Cobain - Montage of Heck
Posted on 3/12/15 at 10:05 am to PsychTiger
Posted on 3/12/15 at 10:05 am to PsychTiger
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"Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
quote:
Radcliffe Squires
The suicide of Richard Cory is not, or ought not to be, a surprise. It is an inevitability, predetermined by the subjugation of selfhood. Even more significantly, however, the subjugated self reclaims itself in the act of suicide. Not that the poem recommends suicide as a way of asserting individuality. Rather, it observes an extreme gesture in an extreme case. To see the poem in this way is to see it as neither bitter nor negative, at least not entirely so. We read ill if we cannot see that Richard Cory is granted an oblique triumph at the end, for he has refused to suppose himself made happy by what "everyone" supposes will make him everyone happy. In short, Richard Cory’s self emerges neurotically perhaps; still it emerges triumphant over the imposed role of "success."
Pretty fricking apropos, if I don't say so myself. Have an upvote, btw.
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