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The common wealth, the poor working class, the higher class, or are they the same? Edwin Arlington Robinson portrays the common wealth and the higher class and shows how each class views each other in the poem. Robinson excellently led up to a disturbing and unsubtle ending leaving something to be desired. The poem lacks closure but doesn’t need it, if the reader is left wondering the author has done his job. Robinson also uses great connotation in his poetry. Robinson wrote subtly and without forewarning to the climax ending of “Richard Cory.” The narrator spoke not only of Richard Cory’s appearance but as the common wealth saw him. Robinson used pleasant imagery and similes to describe Richard Cory thoroughly. The first twelve lines only portrayed the side that others saw, and what Cory wanted the co