5.

I believe that I addressed my problems with identifying different time periods of literature by my responses to the poems in 4.

"The poem describes a man who seems to be the epitome of what everyone wants to be; rich, well dressed, well mannered, and well off. However, at the end of the poem he shoots himself in the head. This shows the feeling of disillusionment that the author was feeling at the time. The poem was in essence saying that being this ideal of a successful human being does not guarantee you happiness. The story of the poem flies in the face of traditional American thinking about success."