What different portrait of Richard Cory does the song build, compared to the poem? "Richard Cory" by Edward Arlington Robinson

I think
that the song is angrier than the poem.  The poem's tone creates an almost reverential quality
to .  It creates the sensibility that Richard Cory's superiority lies in his wealth.  The fact
that the speaker of the poem is poor is separate from this reality.  The song creates a
different vision of wealth.  The elements are still the same, but theof the speaker working in
one of Cory's factory creates the impression that the speaker's poverty is the trade off for
Cory's wealth.  This is where there is anger and not so much as reverence.  The almost parasitic
relationship present helps to accentuate the anger felt by the speaker, for while Cory enjoys
his "orgies on his yacht" (great line) the speaker works in a factory and toils for
his existence.  In the end, when Cory puts a...