Applied Modernism

Essay Pre-write (Richard Cory)
• people thought of Richard Cory as a thing not a person
• disruptive rhythm
• difference between inner and outer world
• deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths

"Richard Cory" Essay

In the poem "Richard Cory" uses many Modernist thoughts and ideas of ways of writing. Modernists used the idea of modernism which was what they thought would be the vision of the future. The author of the poem "Richard Cory" included in his writing the characters inner and outer world, disruptive appearances hiding some difficult truths, and disruptive rhythm to his poem to make people think outside of what people had always thought.

In the poem this Modernist author used the main characters inner and outer feelings to show how what we think in our own thoughts can be drastically different from the thoughts of outer people. He uses this when he talks about the outer thoughts of all the other people in town thinking that Richard Cory was a high class man. Then at the end of the poem the author reveals the truth about Richard Cory.

The author of this poem also uses deceptive appearances to explain the man who was a person the town looked up to. This use of modernism I very similar to inner and outer strategy. Although, it is slightly different because deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths is how the town thought of him before and how they thought about him after. The author uses this to explain the ideas of modernism as other people finding out people's true selves.

Lastly, the author also includes the thoughts of the imagists which used un-rhymed strategy. Although the authors poem wasn't all un-rhymed he uses disruptive rhythm to make it catch the reader to see if they could notice it. The author uses this to include imagist movement to make modernism more interesting by including more movements from that time period to make readers think more closely to the writing.

Modernism occurred during the early 1900s to the 1960s and brought many new ideas to the "low art" which was the majority of people in that time bring out ideas from their inner thoughts and spread their vision of the future to everyone.