'Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more'.
Both poems assert ideas that insinuate brevity along with fragility of both characters in the poem, in addition to the essence that life will go on, that a singular life such as those of the characters are insignificant on a universal scale as when the young soldier from 'Disabled' returned from war he is forgotten and the boy from ‘Out, out' where the people around him moved on even when he had just died.
In comparison to this, 'Disabled' by Wilfred Owen portrays a young man that has left part of himself behind in the war.
‘Out, out' is a poem written by Robert Frost who tells the story of a boy that had his life taken from him in an extremely upsetting circumstance.