During this course, I discovered that literature is much more than just words strung together by an author to form an emotionally charged story. Literature provides its audience with an immersive outlet into an imaginary realm. When the reader is captivated by the story, poem, or play, an emotional connection is made. By connecting, considering and concluding the response obtained from the literary works, the reader can gain a deeper and more analytical understanding of these techniques and tools used by the reader. authors of various literary forms. For this assignment, I chose to compare and contrast two separate literary works from “Journey into Literature” (Clugston, 2010), with similar themes. . The poems I will talk about are “The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost and “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty. I chose these works over the others in our course text because they both offer a deeper look at life, from an outside perspective, as the reader looks into the lives of the main characters and relates to the journeys they are taking. By analyzing these forms of literature, I hope to leave you with the same all-encompassing vision that I have gained. The broad and diverse literary techniques used by both Frost and Welty can and have altered these similar themes dramatically. “The Road Not Taken,” written by Robert Frost and published in 1916, takes the literary form of poetry. “The Road Not Taken is one of Robert Frost's most familiar and popular poems. It is composed of four stanzas of five lines each, and each line has eight to ten syllables in a roughly iambic rhythm; the lines in each stanza rhyme in an abaab pattern. The popularity of the poem is largely a result of the simplicity of its symbolism”....... middle of paper ......login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=22728419&site=lrc-plusMoberly, K. ( 2005). Toward the North Star: Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" and the Slave Narrative Tradition. Mississippi Quarterly, 59(1/2), 107. Ebscohost. Retrieved January 6, 2014, from: http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=26452499&site=eds-liveNewdick, R. S. (1999). Robert Frost and the American college. The Journal of Higher Education, 70(5), 554-561. Retrieved January 5, 2014, from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/205316183?accountid=32521Ngovo, B.L. (2008). Historical approach to Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in a college reading course. Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction, 9(1), 118-126.Welty, E. (1941). “A consummate path”. Atlantic Monthly: n. page. Retrieved January 5, 2014, from: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/41feb/wornpath.htm.