compare the irony of situation in "Miniver Cheevy" and "Richard Cory.

So many poems you read have irony in them, but Edwin Arlington
Robinson has an eye for irony. In the poem "Richard Cory" it is about what a great life Richard
Cory lived. The poem is explaining that he is so graceful and sophisticated. In the last stanza
the poem describes how people wish to become him then one night he puts a bullet through his
head. The poem "Richard Cory" is a poem of situational irony. Where as the poem "Miniver Cheevy"
is about a man who dreams of living during a different time. He talks about the mediaeval times
and how great they where. He loathes the current time and everything involving it. Then in the
last stanza it is revealed that he is drinking because he is not where he wants to be in life.
The poem "Miniver Cheevy" is a poem of verbal irony.