Three Losers A loser is a person who fails frequently or is generally unsuccessful in life. In Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems, three men are classified as losers in three different situations. The three protagonists of the poems are Miniver Cheevy, Richard Cory, and Mr. Flood. These three men, unable to cope with their problems or improve their situations, drown in a life of misery, sadness, and loneliness. They live an unhappy life but do nothing to make it or themselves better. In Robinson’s poem, Miniver Cheevy, a man is unhappy with the era he is living in. He wishes he lived in the time of warriors, swords, and medieval iron clothing. He thought he was born in the wrong time and called it fate. He describes his times as boring, where nothing adventurous happens, like in the old times. Unfortunately, Miniver Cheevy did nothing to improve his life and only kept dreaming of a fantasy life. He becomes a loser that only keeps dreaming, drinking, thinking and thinking but cared less about making his life worth living. He got drunk everyday only to keep imagining a fantasy life that would never become reality and weeping that he was ever born. But not everybody copes with the problems the same way. On another one of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems, a story of a wealthy, envied man is described. Richard Cory is the main character of the poem. He is extremely rich, educated, and gracious. His life seems perfect. Men envy him and women want to be with him. A greeting from him was taken as a greeting from a celebrity. He was a very liked men because even though he was wealthy, he was friendly and social with the common people. But as perfect as his life seems and as much as people liked him, something was missing in his perfect life. Apparently, behind the curtains, his life was so unstable that unable to solve his problems he made the decision of a loser. He committed suicide by putting a bullet through his head. In this poem, Richard Cory is classified as a loser because he gave up on his life. He took the easy way out without thinking that everything in the world has a solution except death. Lastly, an old and lonely men’s situation is described in the plot of an Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems. The poem is called Mr. Flood’s party. In this poem Mr. Flood is an old man who is very lonely because all his friends and family are already dead. He drinks everyday and talks to himself because he has nobody else to talk to. He spends his time out drinking so he won’t have to be at his house all alone. To him, there is nothing ahead of him in his life.So it seems pointless being sober or even alive. He is a man who is completely alone. He knows no one in the town anymore. Because of his loneliness, Mr. Flood becomes a loser who is always drunk and talking to the bottles he drinks from like a crazy man. He lives such a hopeless life just like a loser, instead of making new friends or getting a job to at least make his time left on earth joyful and useful. Apparently, Edwin Arlington Robinson liked to write his poems about people with no interest in making their lives worth living. Some with impressive outcomes like the suicide of Richard Cory, the man who had everything to be happy. Others, like Miniver Cheevy and Mr. Flood, with the typical drinking abuse to try to forget their problems since they can’t solve them. At the end they are all losers who take life for granted. In life the last thing you give up is hope and the will to keep fighting for a better way of living. People make their lives. So didn’t they ever think that if they messed it up, they are the only who can make it better? You don’t just make your life a misery and kill yourself or be drunk for the rest of your life because you can’t fix. If they fell in the whole, they must get themselves out without giving up.