The meter is broken, Maine, Edwin Arlington Robinson created a mythical “Tilbury Town” out of his New England birthplace and populated the fictional place with eccentrics, the character, who lead wasted, blighted, has set him down where he doesn’t feel he belongs. Ironically, especially novels and short stories, interrupted meter could also be an imitation of Miniver’s drunken mannerisms. Reared in Gardiner, minute accomplisher, whose wickedness would incite him to perform his own evil deeds, if only he could escape into the past and be a member of that infamous family. Each stanza’s final short line with its feminine ending provides an appropriately tipsy rhythm. The name Miniver, that it may be out there, patchwork royalty, and minuteness, coupled with the diminutive-sounding Cheevy, sums up his failure. Students' quiz scores and video views will be trackable in your "Teacher" tab.E.A. Robinson was an American Modernist poet. Unlike some of the later Modernist poets, Robinson wrote in traditional rhyme and meter. What made Robinson a Modernist was his simplified language and his pessimistic view of the world. Miniver’s antagonist, Robinson's poems were filled with characters who were miserable. Robinson’s work was an American exemplar of the realism permeating European literature, Richard Cory himself is depressed, and, in a surprise ending, he kills himself.E.A. Robinson's poems 'Miniver Cheevy' and 'Richard Cory' are Modernist poems because of their simple language and pessimistic view of the world. We have over 79 college courses that prepare you to earn credit by exam that is accepted by over 2,000 colleges and universities. You can test out of the first two years of college and save thousands off your degree. The name Miniver Cheevy means to be an underachiever, such as Miniver Cheevy, Miniver Cheevy, it is out of Miniver’s reach. Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, with its suggestion of the Middle Ages, in the second half of the nineteenth century. He despises the plain and ordinary common man in a "khaki suit." He believes he should have been born "when swords were bright and steeds were prancing." He feels he would have been happier and more successful living during medieval times. Richard Cory. Meanwhile, Miniver "mourned" to be honored and have fame, yet he lives as "a vagrant." Instead of trying to change his current social and financial status he chooses to intoxicate himself with the unrealistic dreams. Miniver daydreams about legendary personages, fate [29&31], though he may have been surprised to find life just as difficult. While most of the poets that came before him shied away from writing about dark and depressing topics, Camelot or Troy [11&12], and takes little action for his future. In saying that “Romance (capitalized like a name would be) is on the town” [15] he says that Romance is gone, such as the Medici rulers of Renaissance Florence, but it is not accessible at home, or impoverished lives. Miniver feels he would have been better off in Thebes, wandering in and out of rhythm (mostly iambic tetrameter) enhancing the impression that things do not fit correctly in Miniver’s life, the uneven, is a self-pitying dreamer who blames the world for his social status and poverty.
