Robert Frost's Out, Out-Out

Robert Frost title “ Out Out”, enlighten his readers of a quick tragic moment that will take place by using the word out. The use of the word in the title was inspired by Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”. In Act 5, scene 5: "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: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

As Frost’s builds, readers are able to make the connection of “Out Out” tragedy. Just the mere fact that he Robert Frost’s perceptive yet melancholy poem “Out, Out--” employs practical

Unfortunately, this poem was inspired by true event that took place in Frost’s past. Frost children use to play with a 16 year old neighborhood boy who suddenly died from the trauma of slashing his hand , ending the boys life with heart failure(Fagan). It most of been difficult for Frost to find out the news of his death in an article. The connection of the two are made later on in the poem. Frost evocative imagery revealed the setting, of the boy’s short life. The “yard” in “ Vermont” right before “sunset”, using specific words connecting the “five mountain ranges” which is within eyesight of the boy’s yard that he was working out off. Somehow the mountain can be view as the very object that is blinding his view and the sunset representing the time left before he dies almost like a clock counting down. Frost used nature in the boy’s “world” as a metaphor. Frost connects the benevolent force of nature with the dark aspect of everyday life. Frost use nature as a canvas that will later give a detailed story view of what transpired. The narrator indicated the tragic event to come when he says

Frost used the boy’s surroundings to exemplify the sound of the buzz saw to give it a life of its own. The line “snarled and rattled” repeats three times throughout the poem to depict an image of the buzz saw whirring back and forth(Frost). At times the buzz saw “ runs light, or has to bear a load ”, which he saw as a living thing that must carry something. Frost gives the buzz saw an ominous air, a will of its own, when it “ leaps out at the boy’s hand” “as if to prove that the buzz saw knows what supper was”. I think Frost’s intention was to distract his readers from the mere fact that the boy was the cause of his death. The fact that the boy became momentarily distracted from cutting the wood, Frost, accent blame on an inanimate object. Along with faulting the buzz saw, the reader can also cast blame on the adults for making the boy, “a child at heart”, take on adult responsibility to preform a man’s job, which results in a freak accident costing the boy’s his life. In “Out, Out--”, realistic imagery and the personification of a buzz saw convey Frost’s theme of how we as human beings must continue onward with our lives even in the face of tragedy, along with hinting at the selfish nature of the human race, who have a tendency to only be concerned only for