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Compare thepoems 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heaney
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... Compare the poems 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heaney The poems 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heaney both contain many similarities and differences. Both poems tackle the issue of child death, although both from very different perspectives. 'Mid Term Break' has a much more personal approach to the subject as the narrative character is the brother of the deceased as opposed to in 'Out, Out' where the narrator is detached from the characters, being an outsider. 'Out, Out' tells of the events surrounding the death of the child whereas 'Mid Term Break' concentrates on the effects of the child's death on the family and the accident itself is not actually seen. The title of both poems illustrate how although the children in the poems are dead their lives seemed incomplete as 'Out, Out' is an unfinished quote from the














