1. Taking the Easy Road
... is the initial most obvious difference, which is the choice of literary form. Frost presents his readers with a "lyric poem (that) presents the feelings and emotions rather than telling a story" (Cummings, n.d.). He stirs the emotions and creates a passion in the reader to desire to be of integrity, denying the easy road in life and instead, persevering down "the ... one less traveled by" (as cited by Clugston, 2011, sec. 2.2). Eudora Welty, on the other hand, utilizes the form of short story. She presents her readers with the character, Phoenix Jackson, and through this character, she ...
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- Grade Level: High School