Three Literary Pieces

No matter what literary piece you select you will always be able to compare and contrast situations. The Fiction story “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”, the poem “the road not Taken”, and the other poem “If the World Was Crazy” are three different pieces that reflect life in different ways.

On “The Road not Taken”, you can feel a different perspective than on the fiction story. In this poem you can perceive the confrontation, challenge, and confusion of getting to a decision. You came to a world where there are several ways to follow, but you can only choose one of those in order to start your own path.

“TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both...”

Their is only one life and you can experience just one thing at a time so you need to decide where to look at and keep on going forward. This a is a the beginning of life, is a challenge and a way to build the base of your goal.

I would say that after having the base, the craziness comes in. “If the World Was Crazy”, is just having fun in the path of life you decide to have; experience all the opportunities you may have, have a desire to live, and just enjoy doing the craziest things that pops on you head. You need to enjoy life because death will come when you never expect it.

“If the world was crazy, you know what I'd wear?

A chocolate suit and a tie of eclair,

Some marshmallow earmuffs, some licorice shoes,

And I'd read a paper of peppermint news.

I'd call the boys "Suzy" and I'd call the girls "Harry,"

I'd talk through my ears, and I would always carry

A paper umbrella for when it grew hazy

To keep in the rain, if the world was crazy.”

Enjoy life and experience as you go never stopping of what you think. Follow your heart and live the present.

Finally in “A Clean Well- Lighted Place”, we can see how the perspective of life changes depending the age you have. Years pass and as you get old you believe that there is no meaning to this world, there is no God you are alone in the middle of nothingness. “I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe...With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night...” The old man of this story wants to remain in the cafe during the night because for him spending that time is like having a escape in his life. He is at the point where he describes life as nothing, he is having insomnia and all he has to do is think about the years left in that emptiness. “It is probably only insomnia. many must have it”. There is no reason to believe that each of his days would be less empty than the ones in the past.

I think that each of those three literary pieces had their own uniqueness and showed the way life is planed for all human beings. How each creature in this world acts and reacts against situations. No matter where you are, who you are and what you want you will always be one of a whole, such as a literary piece, and would always have to go through a path.