"Out, Out" & "The Man He Killed"
Dakota Parris
English 131
James Cox
June 14, 2012
"Out, Out" & "The Man He Killed"
No matter what road is taken or path chosen, death most often comes unexpectedly, unreasonably, and, most assuredly, unavoidably. Yet it is simple human nature to lament on might have been had circumstances been altered either by choice or by destiny. In the poems, "Out, Out" and "The Man He Killed", the authors seem to question the reasonableness of death. In pondering the possibility of what could have been if boys were allowed to be boys and men were allowed to be friends, Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy ask if death may not have been avoided if the situations had been different and if destiny ...
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continues his argument, wondering what would have happen if the boy had been allowed to be a boy instead of having to do a man's job. He states, "Since he was old enough to know, big boy Doing a man's work, though a child at heart". On the outside, the boy seemed a man, as he spent all day doing what a grown man would normally do. But inside, he rejoiced at the prospect of finally being free. He was eager to leave work and ready to enjoy the rest of his day. Frost seems to lay the guilt of the accident on those who should have known not to be working the boy like a man.
Similarly, in "The Man He killed", Thomas Hardy wonders what would have been if circumstances had been different. In this poem, a soldier kills another soldier, but, other than following orders, he really didn't seem to know why he was suppose to kill the other. He wondered if that man was not unlike himself. Hardy writes, "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like -- just as I -- , Was out of ...
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