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Compare and contrast the poems 'Out Out-' by Robert Frost and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heany
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... Caitlin Masters-Williams 11N Compare and contrast the poems 'Out Out-' by Robert Frost and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heany The subject of both poems is the untimely death of young people in tragic accidents rather than sickness. Strangely both boys are killed by machinery, the boy in "Out, Out-' by a mechanical saw and the boy in "Mid-Term Break" by a car. Both poems describe the reactions of the families to the deaths each of the families reacting quite differently. Both poems talk about the deaths of young boys who have older or younger siblings; one has at least one sister, while the other has an elder brother and a younger sibling. "Mid-Term Break" is written in the first person and is a far more personal poem consequently the emotions expressed in it are much easier observe and appreciate than in "Out, Out-' which is written in the third person, distancing the













