Compare And Contrast A Man Said To The Universe And Robert Frost

Scarcity of Attention Human instinct is to be noticed; to be acknowledged. Not everyone, though, is noticed in the pleasing way they wish to be seen. In “Out, Out” by Robert Frost and “A Man Said to the Universe” by Stephen Crane, an implication of human beings that are gazed upon, but never became people that are recognized by anyone else is shown through the poets’ similar themes, but are differentiated through tones that portray divergent feelings. Authors normally have a certain reason for choosing the diction and connotation they use in their literature; this creates a theme. Robert Frost’s “Out, Out” explicitly describes a young boy’s journey through hard work only to be lead to a death that no one cared about. In the very last two lines state, “No more to build on there. And since they were not the one dead, they turned to their affairs.” That first sentence is an incomplete sentence, there was no subject, inferring that the boy had perished. He no longer was in existence, theretofore the …show more content…
Frost presents a tone of somber, regret and very ironic whereas Crane describes a prideful and determined tone. The order that Frost used in lines nine and ten explain irony at its finest. “And nothing happened; day was all but done. Call it a day, I wish they might have said,” illustrates that anything else could’ve happened that day, but it so happened to be the buzzing and snarling of the saw slaughtering the life of a human being’s body. The poem then reads a dreadful process of the boy’s life that extends to death that phased no one. In contrast, Stephen Crane’s tone is expressed through diligent hard work and determination. Line two states, “Sir, I exist!” implicating the man’s prideful confidence only to be shot down by the lack of obligation the universe had towards the man. No matter how much the man contributed, his existence made no