Tone: Kafka seems to tackle very intense topics (suicide etc...) that create a very dark feeling to his work. Similar to Frost's tone (very serious/intense), Kafka writes with a sense of depression and loss almost. Although starting very dark, he take a drastic turn and either incorporates a joyful character and/or event that completely changes the tone. His word choice leads to his intense tone. Frost centered his work around grand word choice, over exaggerating the overall theme (just like Kafka). Hopefuly this is a valid comparison, but Frost was the first author that came to mind when thinking about Kafka's voice!
-Matt
I agree with this. In fact, I was going to post about this, but then I saw this post. In one of Frost's poems (I forget which one), he talks about how he is walking away from a village, and there is snow on the ground, and he is all by himself. That sort of tone seems to resonate throughout Kafka's writing; it is rather dark, and he tends to talk about somewhat dark topics like death, just as Frost does.
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