Minever Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Miniver Cheevy” is about a man that believes he is living in the wrong era. He is sure that if he was living in the time of the Medici’s, he could be one. It is made evident that Miniver compulsively dreams “of Thebes and Camelot, / And Piram’s neighbors.” The language the speaker uses, repetition of images, and the attitude of the poem paint a picture of the depressed world …
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…a life he will never achieve. Living through the past of others, Miniver sits and curses the life he’s living in now. Never going to be able to amount to anything, he will spend the last years of his life drinking. The language, repetition of images from the past, and attitude the speaker uses to tell the story of Miniver Cheevy, paints a picture of the sad and depressed life this man is living.
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