Compare and Contrast the ways in how Out, Out and Disabled present the idea of a forgotten victim

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Compare and Contrast the ways in how “Out, Out” and “Disabled” present the idea of a forgotten victim

The poem “Out, Out” by Robert Frost has a strong resemblance with the poem “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen as both poems demonstrate the fragility of life and how one person’s death can be easily forgotten. “Out, Out” the title speaks of everything, used in Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ It implies how life is ultimately described like a candle, when the flame goes off there is eternal darkness. In “Disabled” it essentially shows the same meaning where the women’s interest passed to “strong men that were whole” because the once glorious man in “Disabled” became nothing at all.

The use of personification in “Out, Out” where the buzz saw “snarled and rattled” evokes a sense of foreboding. The buzz saw is seen as aggressive where cutting the boy’s hand was seen as a target and was meant to happen after all. The saw is seen as aggressive where cutting the boy’s hand was seen as a target and was meant to happen after all. The boy is simply nothing but dinner to the predator as he was its “supper” was mentioned right at the same moment when his hand was cut off. This is an effective method of making the boy seem worthless. The buzz saw has its own mind and is always one step ahead to make it seem dominant.

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Betrayal is a key point of the two poems as both victims had been betrayed by their own people. The boy was seen as only another death so no one cared about what happened since they were not the “ones dead” so they just move on with their life without any mourning. In “Disabled” the man was also seen as someone who is nothing as he is no longer “whole”. Where he was once a celebrated man, his life had completely changed due to his inexperience and naïve view on war. He shares a similar fate as to the boy ...

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