“Richard Cory’s Lost Suicide Letter”
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SummaryPaul Laurence Dunbar and Edwin Arlington Robinson created “We Wear the Mask” and “Richard Cory” during the literary renaissance after World War I. Society was targeted and critiqued by authors who wanted to describe the “spiritual problems and disillusionments” (p 765). Dunbar and Robinson described the feeling of alienation, or estrangement from society and its ideals. The insightful theme of alienation critiqued society as being false; ideals of money, power, and social politics were corrupting the modern minds.
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edwin Arlington Robinson created 'We Wear the Mask' and 'Richard Cory' during the literary renaissance after World War I.
- Alienation is very subtle and personal; something not easily observed just by a person's appearance.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar intimates the inner feelings by the alienated person in 'We Wear the Mask?.
- The different texts about alienation are so similar that they should be read and interpreted together.
- The literary renaissance after the First World War detailed the spiritual disillusionment many people experienced.
- By exploring 'We Wear the Mask', the intimately private critique of an alienated speaker point to clues of how desperate life is in a society that deflects his personal beliefs
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