Critical Analysis of Edwin Arlington Robsin - 1440 Words

Her Kisses Were the Keys to Paradise Kaitlyn Cornell In Edwin Arlington Robinsons poetry, haunted houses sound like hanunted houses, dark hills sound like dark hills, but to Robinson it goes beyond that. By the metaphors, images, and emotion he puts into his writing, it is clear that he is feeling something beyond the paper and ink. Many of his works are dark and melancholy and reflect something that may have happened in his own life. There is a reoccuring theme that symbolizes his wife or significant other walking out on him. Other poems reflect his feelings about that situation. Robinson shares with his readers the anguish and recovery of the woman leaving him. .Perhaps Robinsons most famous poem, Richard Cory, tells the story of a†¦show more content†¦There she was always coming pretty soon/ To fool him back, with penitent scared eyes is Robinsons wife coming back in his dreams. The way he descroibes her as the laughter of the moon and her kisses her the keys the Paradise shows how much he loves her. He ment ions Faithful or not, he loved her all the same which acknowledges that she has a flaw, but he still is in awe around her. Also, he mentions her eyes once again which relates to Her Eyes. Robinson uses this poem to reflect on that lonely night she fled and expresses just how much he cares for her even after she left. Similarly, Another Dark Lady uses Robinson as the speaker and he again says that she fled. He says I cannot hate you, for I loved you then which ties his feelings back to The Story of the Ashes and the Flame. Robinson expresses that she is still beautiful even after what she has done to him and he still loves her when she is gone. In The House on the Hill Robinson portrays his relationship with his wife through a house. The House is shut and still, there is nothing more to say creates an image of an old boarded up house which symbolizes their relationship. Why is it then we stray/Around the sunken sill? is Robinson saying that it is time to let go and there is no use s taying in the lifeless situation. Robinson, as the speaker, uses they as themselves when he says They are all gone away in the sense that