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 he had everything he could have gotten like money, intelligence and many other things. I think the reason he had killed himself was that he had everything except happiness. Not being happy killed him on the inside to because without happiness you're empty, you feel like nothing is going on when you do the usual . I thought about how the poem relates to my life today and it seems like not having happiness is something a person needs in order to move on and have a good life. If nothing good is happening that makes the person want to commit suicide. Everything is hard for some people who have everything others don't but they see others have happiness and have nothing else. Which might have made him see life without happiness and that may have caused him to have killed hi