A Trip To Morrow Poem Summary

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There were some differences that I noticed in both the play and poem. For instance, the two characters in the poem were a player and a coach while the poem’s characters were the speaker and the station guide. Furthermore, the characters in the play talk about the other players because Costello wants to know the names of those on the team. In the poem, the speaker and the station guide talk about the speaker’s trip to the small town of Morrow. The last difference between the texts is the most obvious one; the text, “A Trip to Morrow”, is a poem while the other text, “Who’s on First?”, is a play. The poem “A Trip to Morrow” and the play “Who’s on First?” have similarities that stood out to me while reading them. For example, in the

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