"Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a poem about a man who has a miserable life and his longing for one that would give him more satisfaction. What Miniver longs for more than any thing is the admiration and respect of the public. He wishes for a time that has already passed where he could attain love of the public by becoming a great knight or a hero. This poem is a struggle between Miniver's wanting of a better life, and his acceptance of his fate as a miserable man.
"Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn" (Miniver Cheevy, born into hatred). This first line already sets the tone for the poem being that scorn implies disparagement, loathing, and melancholy. "Grew lean while he assailed the seasons"(He got thin as the years went by). The unsatisfied feeling that Miniver has for his life is not short lived. It is a constant problem implied by seasons being plural. "He wept that he was ever born, And he had reasons" (He wished he had never been born, and rightfully so). showing regret for the lifestyle that he was born into.
The second stanza shows how Miniver feels that if he were born earlier that he could have had a chance at glory. "Miniver loved the days of old, When swords were bright and steed were prancing"(He loved the glory days of the knights fighting each other). In earlier times a knight was a person held with great esteem. Miniver could have been one of those knights, giving his life a whole knew meaning. "The vision of a warrior bold would send him dancing" (Thinking about those times made him happy enough to dance).
In the third and fifth stanza, Miniver is daydreaming about how life was for those heroes years ago." Miniver sighed for what was not, And dreamed, and rested from his labors"(Miniver relaxed as he day dreamed about what could have been) "He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, And Priam's Neighbors."(He dreamed of times of great knights) "Miniver loved the Medici, Albeit he had never seen one.
In Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems, "Richard Cory", "Miniver Cheevy", and "Mr. ... In Robinson's poem "Miniver Cheevy," the speaker speaks of a man who seems depressed. ... In "Miniver Cheevy" the agony is much more apparent and recurrent throughout the poem. The narrator informs the audience in the beginning, that "Miniver loved the days of the old" and wished he were born then. ...
Both Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy are Outcast in Society. ... Miniver Cheevy believes he was born to late he wants to be rich he wants to have nice clothes like Richard Cory does. ... Unlike the image one may get when reading Miniver Cheevy. Miniver is a labor he drinks exceivly.he curses the complace and eyes suits with a loathing. Both Cheevy and Cory are killing themselves in differnt ways. ...
Comparison and Contrast of "Miniver Cheevy" and "The Love Song of J. ... Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy" and T.S. ... In both "Miniver Cheevy" and "The Love Song of J. ... And in Miniver Cheevy's chase, he never achieves anything at all. ... Miniver Cheevy's wish is completely unrealistic, and just plain silly. ...
The romanticized past is attacked within the poem "Miniver Cheevy", who lusts for that which is not within his grasp - the romanticized past. Miniver "loved the Medici," because he had only seen the illusions drawn about them - books, or works of literature (which can be, at lowest form, merely illusions) - which leads him to conclude that it was a place of "mediǽval grace," which is simply not true. ... This technique of revealing the truth at the end is used in "Richard Cory," and "Miniver Cheevy," among others. ... Without the crucial ability to perceive, we are no different than Min...
In "The Raven,"" the persona begins his tale in his home on a dark and gloomy December night in this paraphrase: Once, during a dreary midnight, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many amusing and peculiar forgotten folk tales, I fell sleepy, nearly napping (1-3). ...
Minjung Theology, literally translating into theology of the people and masses, is a Korean Christian theology inspired by Western theologies but with its own indigenous fervor. The above passage describes one aspect of Minjung Theology: interpreting the bible through its historical narrative and re...
