Journey Throughout Life

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Journey Throughout Life Journey Throughout Life The main difference I have noticed between a poem and a short story starts with the way they are written and their forms but how they both end in the same ways. Both a poem and a short story have meaning and themes to entertain the readers or audience. With poems the reader can be drawn into it through the different and interesting rhythms used and in the way it is written by reading them. With short stories it is the characters, settings and the plot of the story that makes it interesting for the readers. According to literature experts creating a good plot with interesting settings is not good enough for a story to be read, but it also needs the readers to use their imagination. Readers can have their own idea or use their imagination to “see” what they are reading. Sometimes what a reader “sees” and how they interpret what they have read might be different from the interpretation that the author may have wanted. If a group of people were to read the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty (1941), each interpretation of what was read would differ with each person even though they both have very similar themes. The poem and short story both are written about someone who is on a journey towards the unknown. A journey in which their decisions or choices will end up changing their lives forever. The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty (1941) are both written in different forms. In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, the poem's main character is written in a first person perspective of a person on a journey. The short story of the woman on the “Worn Path” was narrated in the third person with the woman as the narrator and the main character. You could tell in the short story that the woman was
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