Analysis Of Out, Out By Robert Frost

In ‘Disabled’, Wilfred Owen a war veteran tells the story of a young soldier who returns from war and realizes how dissimilar his old life is to his new one where he is disabled both mentally and physically despite the fact that his mind may seem unaffected by past traumas the reader will begin to understand the subtle hurts that have slowly damaged him. In contrast, the story of ‘Out, out-‘ is of a boy completing his everyday chores, sawing wood, in the backdrop of the Vermont mountains. He accidentally cuts his hand off and he succumbs to death despite a doctor’s aid.

His poetic theme, the horror and the pity of war is set forth in strong verse that transfigured traditional meters and diction . In his poem, "Disabled", consists of 7 stanzas, which Owen remarks in a letter to

Throughout the poem there are many examples of contrast or juxtaposition in a majority of the stanzas. In the first stanza the veteran is sitting all alone in his wheelchair with his legs amputated. Owen describes the boys playing in the park. These boys are a direct juxtaposition to the veteran because they are able to run

In Robert Frost’s poem “Out-Out-”, he uses literary devices to present the consequences of a careless, young child. This young boy seemed to be a hard worker although he finds himself in a dreadful tragedy that has no effect on anyone except himself. Robert Frost has created a character who only longed to be a “big boy” and lost his life by cutting off his hand. The boy did not know how brief life can be until it was too late. Frost shows this using imagery, diction, and other literary devices.

"Out, Out," by Robert Frost is a gruesomely graphic and emotional poem about the tragic end of a young boy's life. It is a powerful expression about the fragility of life and the fact that death can come at any time. Death is always devastating, but it is even more so when the victim is just a young boy. The fact that the boy's death came right before he could " Call it a day" (750) leads one to think the tragedy might have been avoided and there by forces the reader to think, "What if." This poem brings the question of mortality to the reader's attention and shows that death has no age limit.

The characters’ lost opportunities are shown in both poems, which makes their situation more of an injustice. It is discussed more in Disabled with flashes to past and present, generally alternating in a regular pattern. By juxtaposing the past and the present, he emphasises both of them. This makes the past seem more perfect and the present seem even worse, thus making the reader sympathise with the character more. For example, in the third stanza he says that there was an artist silly for his face and then, in the same stanza, he says that he has now lost his colour. This contrasts how handsome he was to now when he no longer fits the ideals of beauty, as both of the phrases are in the same syndetic field they are compared to each other. Colour is a metaphor for life/youth, as it makes the reader imagine rosy-cheeked children. This shows that he has lost his youth much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This blood imagery links to death in both not only showing physical loss but loss of life (or life as he knew it in Disabled) much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This is similar to how in Out, Out-; Frost describes the boy trying to keep his life from spilling. He uses life as a metaphor for the blood.

The average life expectancy in the world is seventy-two years. But life is not always made to work out that way. Robert Frost uses figurative language, such as allusion, personification, diction, imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to illustrate the brevity of life in “Out, out-.” He uses these devices to tell the story of a young boy who dies an irrational and unexpected death after an accident with a saw.

The poem ?Out, Out, --? can only be described as an ironic misfortune that could be experienced by anyone. The realistic subject

The authors(Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen) of ‘Out, Out-’ and ‘Disabled’ use imagery to show that a nonideal world is more prominent than an ideal one. 'Disabled' shows how the war has changed him to look non-ideal this is evident in the text when Owen describes the victim's disabilities ‘Legless, sewn short at elbow.’This quote is very effective in showing how the war victim after his battle body has become disabled.The author of ‘Out, Out-’ also shows that the boys looks are not to his ideal; ‘Don’t let him cut my hand off.' Frost uses this quote to illustrate how much the boy wanted to keep his hand that no matter what happens, even if he has an arm that is hanging off that was better than having no hand at all. The authors Frost and Owen, also show that the victims had a feeling of anguish, that why did this have to happen to them when they were only trying to do something good.They both use imagery to express this, the War victims feelings are shown in this quote ’And put him to bed? Why don't they come?.' This statement shows his feeling of anguish and regret because he had done so much for them and they won’t help him and how he is longing for companionship after the war. Owen explains this by showing the reader that the soldier is not attracted to his body and woman aren't either because his body is non-ideal,’as he noticed how the women's eye's passed from him to the strong men that were whole.’It Makes the reader sympathise on a personal level with the victim because he didn't deserve this after all that he had done.In

In the first stanza the young soldier is depicted in a dark, isolated state as he sits in his wheelchair. Almost immediately the reader learns that the soldier has lost his legs in a battle. Owen casts a pall over this young man with the depiction of sad voices of boys echoing throughout the park, perhaps as they echoed on the battlefield. The voices throw him back into his memories, which is what will constitute the rest of the poem until the last few lines. Words such as "waiting" and "sleep" reinforce the sense that this soldier's life is interminable to him

In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of war and the brutal aftermath by using powerful imagery, dramatic contrasts of pace and time, overwhelming irony and by creating a strong sense of sympathy for the soldier of this poem. The contrasts between health and illness, life and death feature greatly in the poem; this gives the reader a ‘before and after’ picture of the soldier’s (subject’s) life.

Compare how the theme of loss is communicated in the poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and ‘Out, Out –‘by Robert Frost

In the first world war both Wilfred Owen and Robert Frost wrote world renowned poems portraying their views on both the war and the change in life due to the war. Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 on the 18th of march. He was and English soldier and poet that wrote the horrors of the war, the things that the newspapers and the posters were conveying. He was heavily influenced on his mentor Siegfried Sassoon who was also a soldier and poet that had also written the horrors of the trenches and the war. Owens technique and style of poetry was very similar to Sassoon’s due this connection that they had. Owens poem talks about a young man, a teenager that is very strong and handsome, looked upon by the girls as a fine young lad. Who then enlists and regrets his decision quite soon after he goes to war. Robert Frost was an American poet who lived in America but then came to England before the war because he found it easier to get his poems published in England. But then he later moved back to America just before the war started so that he did not have to join the Army. He was well known for writing about rural life in New England around the early twentieth century. He was also known for using American colloquial language in his poems. His poem Out, Out is about the issues of child labour and the fact that industry is taking many lives and probably changing the world for the worse.

In many poems, poets try to speak from an outsider’s perspective. Specifically in the poems, “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “Refugee Blues” by W.H. Auden, poets write from an outsider’s perspective to show the lack of understanding between characters and their society. “Disabled” is written from a young soldier’s perspective, who just lost his leg. Owen highlights the barrier between him and using the persona’s struggles both physically and emotionally. Meanwhile, in “Refugee Blues”, Auden tries to show the sense of being an outsider through human segregation. The writer uses this opportunity to raise awareness of the fact that Jews were deprived of

Firstly I would like to analyse the background information of both of these poems.’Out Out’ and ‘Disabled’ were both written in the same era as the First World War, this had a great influence