Reality We all may believe our existence is important to many but do not accept that we are just a dime a dozen. Robert Frost’s Out, Out and Stephen Crane’s A Man Said to the Universe allows us to face the realization of our place on Earth. In both poems, the authors establish a similar theme of reality using various literary devices, demonstrating our actual worth in life. In the poem, Out, Out, Frost uses foreshadowing to depict the death of a young boy due to dangerous manual labor. In the end, we notice the irony in the poem when the boy is deceased the people around him continue working. The mood is now sad or disappointed from their reaction by the diction Frost uses. For instance, in A Man Said to the Universe, Crane’s diction
