Out Out vs. To an Athelete Dying Young

The tones of the two poems are very different. The first one introduces death very abruptly and through a tonal shift. Outsiders in the first poem also return to their affairs after the boy is declared dead. The first poem also serves to inform about the truths of and attitudes toward child labor. The second poem expresses a sympathetic tone toward death and gradually introduces it through imagery and implications rather than an abrupt insertion of death. The first poem also explains the details of the death while the second is more sensitive toward such a tragedy. The second poem is also very reflective on and cerncerned with the significance of the deceased's life.