Compare and Contrast
Robert Frost’s in “The Path Not Taken” and Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path focus on one particular theme that is “Journey”. While the two writers have displayed a similar theme, it is a different point of view. Each of them have showed particular journey through which life can change. Out of many things in these two literatures there is one thing in common, i.e. no matter what journey a person takes there is a lot of hurdles and hardship standing in their way to demotivate them. Each of the literatures has different characters, symbolism, and historical context although the theme of these two literatures is same.
The basic themes of these two works of literature is same i.e. Journey. But each of these writers has portrayed it in a different way. In Poem “Path not Taken” tells that in life a time comes when one have to decide which way he/she have to choose one path to spend their lives. The poem is not only based on only one theme i.e. taking chances but it also has themes like, experimenting new thing, not following the crowd, and taking a stand on something. But this is totally different from Eudora Welty “A Worn Path”. Eudora shows in her story that Phoenix Jackson has no choice to select her path in order to heal her grandson. She has to take a path that end in place where she could find medicine for her grandson. No matter the path is difficult or easy, right or wrong she has taken this journey just for the love of her grandson.
Journey has different meaning according to different people. Some people consider journey as only distance they have travel while they forget that there can be great meaning beyond each step is taken. While focusing on destination people neglect to recognize the value of whole process that gets them there. The exhilaration and excitement of capricious voyage allow people to learn positive and negative things of different people one meet while travelling and explore different places which turns out to be useful for the rest of the
The basic themes of these two works of literature is same i.e. Journey. But each of these writers has portrayed it in a different way. In Poem “Path not Taken” tells that in life a time comes when one have to decide which way he/she have to choose one path to spend their lives. The poem is not only based on only one theme i.e. taking chances but it also has themes like, experimenting new thing, not following the crowd, and taking a stand on something. But this is totally different from Eudora Welty “A Worn Path”. Eudora shows in her story that Phoenix Jackson has no choice to select her path in order to heal her grandson. She has to take a path that end in place where she could find medicine for her grandson. No matter the path is difficult or easy, right or wrong she has taken this journey just for the love of her grandson.
Journey has different meaning according to different people. Some people consider journey as only distance they have travel while they forget that there can be great meaning beyond each step is taken. While focusing on destination people neglect to recognize the value of whole process that gets them there. The exhilaration and excitement of capricious voyage allow people to learn positive and negative things of different people one meet while travelling and explore different places which turns out to be useful for the rest of the
References: Gottschalk. Franziska; (2000) Interpretation of a Short Story: “I Used to Live Here” by Jean Rhys. Brown. J; (2010) Textual Entanglement: Jean Rhys’s Critical Discourse. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. 584-589. Orr. Elaine; (2005) “Unsettling Every Definition of Otherness”: Another Reading of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”, Published by: South Atlantic Modern Language Association. 57-63. Shurr. William; (2003) Once More to the “Woods”: A New Point of Entry into Frost’s Most Famous Poem. Published by: The New England Quarterly, Inc. 584-590. Tischler, M. Nancy (2007). Thematic guide to biblical literature. Published by Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313337098, 9780313337093. 125-130 Yaakov, Juliette (2001). Fiction catalog. Published by H.W. Wilson. ISBN 0824210050, 9780824210052. 558-563