In this essay, I will compare two poems. “Out, Out” by Robert Frost, an American rural poet and Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet. Both of these poems are based on the death of children. The title "Out, Out" is part of Shakespeare's Macbeth. “Outside, outside brief candle”. This coincides with the storyline of the poem Child Deaths, as "brief candle" implies that the candle went out almost immediately. So this coincides with the poem because there is the death of a child, so death is like a “brief candle”. “Out, Out” was written by Robert Frost in 1916. It is a narrative poem written in the 3rd person. Using the 3rd person makes it more realistic because it's as if Robert Frost is telling us, the audience, the story that suggests he could have been there when it actually happened. “Out, Out” is about a boy who felled trees in Vermont, but one day he got distracted and the chainsaw “jumped” out of his hand and cut his hand. He later died in hospital. But no one cared about him. “And they, as it was not they who were dead, turned to their business.” Robert Frost tells us the poem as if it were a story, so he tells the poem to everyone, not just to a group or a single person. The layout of the poem is one large stanza with lines of different sizes. You could say there is a pattern because when the poem is turned sideways it looks like the teeth of a chainsaw or the "five mountain ranges one behind the other." The poet used this structure because he might have wanted to tell the poem as a story instead of telling it as a poem. The poem originated in Vermont, a place where there are many loggers and there are beautiful landscapes surrounding the forests. The rhythm of the poem var...... middle of paper ...... I met my father crying and I talk about dead people. “Little – Less – Nothing and it ended. » “He had always taken funerals in his stride. » Additionally, both deaths were accidents. 'The saw... seemed to come out of the boy's hands.' However, there are some differences like: In "Out, out", the boy doesn't really stand out, "and since they weren't the one who died, they turned to their own business", which suggests this, while in Mid-Term Break the deceased boy is surrounded by family and friends. In "Out, Out", the setting is the countryside, "Five mountain ranges behind each other", while Mid-Term Break takes place in an urban suburb. “Out, Out” tells us about the moment when the accident happened while in Mid-Term Break, it’s the aftermath. "Out, out" is in the third person so someone tells us that whereas in Mid-Term Break it's in the 1st person so that's how it happens.