When I memorized the poem "Richard Cory" I started to think about it differently. I thought about why he might have killed himself, and I thought about how the poem relates to my life today. It seems like..." my life is almost smilliar to Richard Cory because once you go through so much things that aren't good it really affects you so one day you go crazy and wanting to pull the trigger on your own self because life seems to hard and it doesn't seem like it will never too many secrets just a deep story dark secrets for so long can really do damage mentally,phycilally abuse and not telling anyone can make things worse so I feel Richard Cory didn't have a all the way good life and never told anyone so one calm summer night he went back home and put a bullet through his head its really sad I hope I don't turn out to kill myself because of what happened to me.