Loss in the many forms in which it occurs is a common theme in literacy texts, causing readers to reflect on the meaning of life and hope that has been lost. In Wilfred Owen's "Disabled" and Robert Frost's "Out, out", this theme evokes even more sadness in the reader since the loss is so tragic because the victims are young, who had their whole lives ahead of them and whose human lives they were subsequently wasted needlessly. This essay will focus on the ways in which both poets highlight the tragedy of this loss of young lives by examining the nature of the loss, the ruthlessness of other people, and the context in which it occurs. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay. Both poems present very different types of tragic loss of young life. The little boy from 'Out, out-' is the victim of what appears to be a random accident, his hand cut off by the snarling 'buzz saw'. Yet from the beginning Frost suggests that a sinister force is present; the circular saw is presented both as an inhuman and insensitive machine, and as an evil force, which "growls" like a ferocious beast waiting to attack its prey which in this case is the boy. When the boy's sister announces "Dinner", with frightening speed, the handjob: "As if to prove that handjobs knew what dinner meant, she jumped out of the boy's hand or seemed to jump - he must have given his hand." The terrifying implication is that the saw was waiting for the signal to pounce like a wild animal on its prey and literally "devour" the boy. Even more frighteningly, uncertainty phrases such as “As if,” “seems,” and “must have” deliberately create a sense of uncertainty. The speaker leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the boy was the tragic victim of a plot of fate to destroy his young life before it had just begun as he is always called "the boy" or whether it was an accident entirely meaningless. , a total waste of a young life. The tragic loss in 'Disabled' is equally horrific, because it was caused by a deliberate action by the young man himself. He was seduced by propaganda that portrayed the First World War as a glamorous adventure: 'He thought of jeweled dagger hilts in plaid socks; of clever salutes; And care of weapons; and going away; and paying arrears.' Completely unaware of the horrors of trench warfare, barbed wire and poison gas, he imagines war to be some kind of storybook romance, the remark made about "daggers in plaid socks" suggesting he might have thought of romantic war stories that a child fantasizes about as a young man also imagined war as a kind of sport: "He once liked to get a blood stain down his leg, after games." sporting scratches to the injury he might sustain in war. Therefore, there is a sense of cruel irony in the fact that his wound was actually a leg wound but which drained his blood, destroying his life: "And a leap of purple. flowed from his thigh." What makes all this so tragic is that only after becoming disabled does he realize that his pride has led him astray: "Someone said he would look like a god in a kilt." Again, we see that in his imagination, the poor, innocent boy thought that the war would be an adventure and not the barbaric and massacre that it was. What makes the loss in both poems so tragic is the contempt shown towards the young victims. Death.