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    Discuss the poets’ presentation of the exploitation of youth and creation of pathos in the poems “Disabled” and “Out, Out” Wilfred Owen was a soldier during World War one and one of the leading poets during this period of time. His poems convey his views of heavily criticising the war. In the particular poem I will be referring to today, “Disabled” he challenges the integrity of those in charge during the war effort as well as challenging society’s output on the situation. Robert Frost was an American

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    Disabled by Wilfred Owen and Out, Out by Robert Frost are infamous for their powerful and impactful atmospheres and the ways in which they have creates them, some of the methods being shared and with some of the methods differing, which is what I intend to discuss in this essay. One way in which Disabled and Out, Out compare in the atmosphere is through their use of pity to evoke extreme emotions. Owen creates pity for the narrator through the strong contrast between his life before the war and

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    Robert Frost's 'Out, Out'

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    ‘Out, Out’ by Robert Frost is a graphic and tragic description of the death of a young boy. The poem exhibits a powerful description of nature which analysis how human actions directly contribute to this gruesome nature. Robert Frost’s usage of personification within the buzz saw, nature’s imagery, diction and tone that showcases various emotions, and blank verse; display feelings of pain, grief, and anger throughout the poem. These emotions displays throughout the poem is in response to the tragic

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    Robert Frost's Out, Out

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    readers. Robert Frost’s “Out, Out—” tells the account of how a Vermont boy died in a tragic carpentry accident. Due to the excitement brought on by the thought of his working day being over and his own inexperience, the boy accidentally saws off his own hand and quickly enters into the literal “ether” while under “the dark of ether”, anesthesia, as the doctor is attempting to save the boy. In the title Frost alludes to one of Shakespeare’s most famous of lines, “Out, out, brief candle!”, immediately

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    Robert Frost's Out, Out

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    In “Out, Out---” Frost depicts a young boy who is working in a yard cutting wood. The text further illustrates that this boy is working in a mountainous region of Vermont. The first thing that the reader learns about the speaker of the poem is that he is working with a loud buzz saw that “snarled and rattled in the yard.” The worker in this poem then indicates that the “day was all but done” and that he yearns to stop working, to be able to “call it a day.” It is also during this section that you

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    In both the poem, “Out, out--” by Robert Frost, and the passage from Act 5 scene 5 of Macbeth, death is regarded as an inevitable thing, the authors use a down to earth tone to matter of factly address the fate of all mankind. In the poem “Out, out--”, Frost tells the fateful story of a young boy who is quickly gripped by death, yet seemingly forgotten by all around him. Such a depressive tone leads to the message that since death is inevitable, individual life is meaningless. In the excerpt from

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    Out, Out by Robert Frost

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    Robert Frosts poem “Out, Out,” paints a strange and bizarre death image to readers; A young boys death due to a carnivorous chainsaw who sought blood, slicing the boys hand off. Robert makes readers understand why he would paint such a tragic accident with various narrative elements, such as personification, many signs of imagery, emotions, and perceptions throughout the story. Also, Frost references William Shakespeare’s work, “Macbeth.” This gives readers who have read Macbeth before, an idea of

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    The They quit school and travel around the world learning and finding the good in the everyday tasks of the world. They learn through separating from society and interacting more with nature. “Out, Out” is a poem written by Robert Frost. In the poem a boy cuts his hand with a saw and eventually bleeds out to death. I think the theme of this poem is the throughout life people work to stay alive, but

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    Robert Frost's Out, Out

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    Out, Out is a poem written by the late Robert Frost. It depicts the harsh death of a young farm boy due to an accident caused by a saw. The title of the poem derives from a speech in the famous Shakespeare play, Macbeth, and it signifies the ephemeral nature of life. The writer depicts this behind a scenic, Vermont countryside, offsetting the horror that this accident caused. The author also uses many other ways to evoke a sense of horror in this poem. For example, the poem uses many literary devices

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    Robert Frost's Out, Out

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    The saddest and most unfortunate parts of “Out, out-”, by Robert Frost, are when the boy cuts of his hand, because it was totally accidental, and when the boy dies, because any death to an innocent little kid is sad. The boy cutting off his hand is unfortunate because the boy didn’t mean to do it, he was just excited for dinner and threw the chainsaw when he heard dinner was ready. Also, the doctor has to but him into the “dark of ether” to try to relieve the pain and fix it. Using “dark of ether”

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