Please select either the Two Poems OR the Two Short Stories OR the Short Story and the Poem as the focus of your comparative essay. Your goal is to make use of whatever analytical techniques and/or theoretical approaches you wish to compare the two texts. You are free to determine what similarity (or similarities) and difference (or differences) you will discuss, being sure to organize your argument and use the discussion of analysis of quotations from each of the pertinent texts to develop your ideas. Please discuss what you believe to be the theme(s) of the texts, making use of methods of literary analysis and some particular theoretical approach. In other words, consider what you think the story means, by analyzing Narrative Voice (and/or layers of narrative), Plot, Setting, Character, Image, Diction, and/or Tone/Mood, but also in reference to one key question, such as—