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Investigating The Danger Of The Saw In 'Out, Out' By Robert Frost

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In “Out, Out,” Robert Frost highlights the danger of the saw by emphasizing its fearsome characteristics. By these means, Frost reveals that a child should not do work meant for adults until he sufficiently matures. Frost manifests the ostensible malice of the saw by way of personification. The twice-occurring scene in which the “saw snarled and rattled” (1, 7) demonstrates the saw’s fierce, animal-like temperament. The saw makes sounds akin to lions and snakes, some of nature’s most vicious predators. After the sister calls for supper, Frost expresses the saw’s immediate action by inferring that it intended to “prove saws knew what supper meant.” (15) The saw expressed a wish to feed, as is Man’s wont. However, in lieu of the sister’s feast,
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