Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy

These two poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson present portrayals of characters and give insights into what those characters’ lives are like. Review the poems and note the traits described or implied for each character. Using the information in the poems, write a news article about each character that might appear in their local paper. Include descriptive details and write in the tradition of Naturalist writers, who did not shy away from showing the dark sides of the human condition.