Comparing 'Out, Out And A Man Said To The Universe'

“Life Goes On” As Robert Frost once stated, “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” Robert Frost’s “Out, Out-“ and Steven Cranes’ “A Man Said to the Universe,” both have a theme that can relate to this powerful quote. Whether it be a group of individuals turning to their affairs after the death of a boy or the universe harshly telling the man who desperately wants his existence to be known that he simply does not care, life still has to go on. The two poems are presented in two different themes, but contain the same groundbreaking message for the readers. “Out, Out-” and “A Man Said to the Universe” both creatively demonstrate that life still has to go on. In “Out, Out-,” a boy doing a man’s job, gruesomely