In "Beale Street Love" by Langston Hughes, the poem illustrates a theme that would be along the lines of a dangerous love. Hughes demonstrates this quality over and over again by depicting an abusive love with his powerful words. Even though the poem is short in length, the words are so powerful that it completely takes you aback to a dangerous love situation. For example, Hughes uses such words as "crushing the lips, blackening the eyes, hit me again..." These words lead one to believe that there is definitely a feeling of love, fear, and embarrassment which in turn would lead to a potentially dangerous situation for whomever was in this predicament. I believe the poet handles this theme very well in the sense that it lets one in on something so common but yet so fearful. Hughes keeps the poem short, simple and to the point and does not put on the "rose colored glasses" so to speak.

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Robert Frost's theme in "Out, Out-" is one of loss. He demonstrates this by starting his poem talking about wood being sawed off and it falling to the ground, this is foreshadowing for the inevitable. He goes on to give description of the saw, through it sounds and its actions. You can tell from the begging of the poem that something tragic is going to happen with the saw whether it be with the one that is operating it or some one who is close to it. Frost depicts the boy as just that a boy doing a mans job and due to the fact that it is a boy doing a mans job he is careless and gets distracted. The boys sister comes outside and tells him that dinner is ready and carelessly the boy looses control of the saw cutting off his hand. The boys first words are "Don't let him cut my hand off-The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!" This shows the boys fear and the trust that he has in his sister. Frost at first leads you to believe that the boy is simply going to lose his hand but with the line " They listened at his heart little-less-nothing! And that ended it No more to build on there" You see that the boy lost his life. Frost handled the theme of loss very

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