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Out, out- By Robert Frost Poem analysis Will Gladnick Poem Analysis Frost begins the poem by describing

a young boy cutting some wood with a buzz saw. The setting is Vermont and the time is late afternoon. The sun is setting and the boy's sister calls he and the other workers to come for supper. As the boy hears it is dinnertime, he gets excited, and the saw jumps out of his hand and cuts his hand on accident. Immediately realizing that the doctor might amputate his hand, he asks his sister to make sure that it does not happen. By the time the doctor arrives, it is too late and the boy's hand is already lost. When the doctor gives him anesthetic, he falls asleep and never wakes up again. The last sentence of the poem, "since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" shows how although the boys death is tragic, people move on with their life in a way conveying the idea that people only care for themselves. Poetic Devices and notable other things Frost's poem begins with vivid imagery of sound, sight and smell. The onomatopoeia of line one: "The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard" is redoubled in line seven: "And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled." The verbs give the power tool animalistic life. "Snarled" evokes angry dogs, wolves, and other quadruped beasts. "Rattled" imports the sound of a snake giving warning that it is about to strike with venomous fangs. Both words resonate with sound and fury. We picture the falling sawdust, the five mountain ranges and a Vermont sunset. Images of smell come with "Sweet-scented stuff" wafted by a breeze. Frost seems glib in his concluding lines. "No more to build on there." At first the phrase seems to be a reference to jobs of construction. But perhaps the speaker is referring to the life, which is snuffed like an extinguished candle: the boy's heartbeat or pulse that faded "Little less nothing." Nothing can be built on nothing.

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