Answer: The best answer for this question would be your last option:
A poem is timeless, while a story is tied to a particular place and time.
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Blanche was simply "destroyed"
The last description makes the most sense, as to how the wording "mob" and "populace" imply them as behaving as group. Called social group psychology, many people "join the crowd" when it comes to supporting or opposing certain events, causes, or acts.
