Compare How Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen Communicate the...

Compare how Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen communicate the theme of loss in ‘Out, Out-’ and â€Å"Disabled†. In the two poems â€Å"Out, Out-† and â€Å"Disabled†, a similar theme of loss is portrayed. Both of these poems deal with the subject of physical loss, as both protagonists of these poems experience accidental amputation. Both Robert Frost and Wilfred Owen manage to captivate their audience’s attention, and also a certain degree of sympathy for the protagonists’ misfortune. They do this successfully, with the use of common literary techniques and linguistic skills, such as simile, metaphor, personification, contrast, and many more literary devices, which range from obvious to very subtle. â€Å"Out, Out-†, written by American poet Robert†¦show more content†¦Within such a short sentence, the boy’s life was simply gone. This use of tripling is very effective, as it may symbolise a heartbeat, slowly beating away, to its fate. The dashes further enhance this, as they make the reader pause in the gaps between the words, making the â€Å"heartbeats† seem further and further apart, and eventually dying away. Another quote which gives the reader a sense of loss is the final stanza of the poem: â€Å"And they, since they were not the ones dead, turned to their affairs†, in line 33-34. This quote, to put into simpler words, means that the people who were working with this young boy (who happen to be his family), had better things to do than to care for the death of this young boy, and simply turned away, and got back to work. This action seems alarmingly heartless, but nevertheless, Frost very successfully makes the jreaders feel a hug e sense of loss. This line once again shows how meaningless and vulnerable life is. Written in the 1910s by Wilfred Owen, â€Å"Disabled† is a poem describing the experience of a young soldier losing his limbs after fighting in World War I. He later gets discriminated against, and feels isolated and regretful of his naà ¯ve reason to go to war. As opposed to â€Å"Out, Out-â€Å", â€Å"Disabled† does not have an ambiguous title at all. The word â€Å"disabled† is