Commentary on Robert Frost’s ‘Out Out’

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For a start, t he line sounds quite threatening to us and immediately we think that the adage give later become a problem or an issue. The line likewise personifies the cut, which further makes us believe that the saw will later playing period a major role in the poem. freeze also personifies the saw by using words like snarled and rattled which makes the saw seem beast-like. The word buzz is onomatopoeic which once once more personifies the saw.The next line, And make dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood describes the saws purpose in the poem it makes us much beaten(prenominal) with the saw. The next few lines set the scene of the poem, Five mountain ranges one behind the other, under(a) the sunset far into Vermont. Some say that this is a reference to the bible, in Psalms*. The image that this line creates is comfort and contrasts with the first line, which can be perceived as being threatening. The phrase Under the sunset is ambiguous it can be interpreted as a soothing image for some but for others it may resemble an ending of something more than bonnie day.Generally, the first five lines set the scene of the poem. They tell us more ab stunned whither the poem is set and what kind of lifetime the boy lives- a rural life.The seventh line goes on to say And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, which is a repetition of the first line. The repetition here is used to show that a long time is passing by while the saw is being used and that perhaps the job is monotonous. This line also brings us back to the reality that the poem is trying to show us. The 2 lines just before line seven gives us a soothing and peaceful image but amongst all this beauty thither is this saw, a saw that Frost describes as dangerous.Call it a day, I wish they might have said has a tone of regret and sympathy, demonstrate that the persona knows what will decease to the boy, and this leaves us to think what will happen and we are left to fear the worst. To please the boy by cock-a-hoop him the half(prenominal) hour that a boy counts so much when deliver from work. This line shows more regret and it is at this point that we realise that the poem involves a young boy and this saddens and worries the reader even more. The line also subtly suggests that if it was called a day then perhaps the incident with the saw would not have happened.In line 14, the boys sister comes to him to tell him that it is time for dinner. At this point we are slightly relieved, as the word supper which is used in the line, relates to normality and we all feel safe in the domesticity and regularity of our own home and therefore, we think that perhaps what we had predicted to happen would not come true.Frost, again personifies the saw in lines 15 and 16, At the word, the saw, as if to prove saws knew what supper meant Again, Frost makes us fear the worst, and in the next line our fears come true, Leaped come out of the closet at the boys lapse, or seemed to leap- He m ust have given the authorise. In the last phrase of this line, Frost has used irony when someone gives their hand it usually means they are greeting someone or make an agreement on something. Frost words it in such a way as if he is suggesting that the boy welcomed the saw. He then goes on to say in line 18 However it was neither refused the meeting. This again implies that the boy did nothing to stop the saw from excruciationing him. The boys first war cry was a rueful laugh. In this line we are shown that the boy did not cry at first but laughed at his careless mistake, laughed as if to stop himself from crying, or perhaps just because the fact that he had hurt himself hadnt sunken in yet.When he showed his family what had happened he swung toward them holding up the hand, half in appeal but half as if to keep the life from spilling. In this line, the words half and spilling create very gory pictures in our minds. Half shows the image of half a hand, and spilling shows the ima ge of red blood rushing out from his cut hand.Then the boy saw all-. In this line Frost has used the word saw as a homonym it could mean that he saw his life flash before him or it could mean that he had sawed off all of his hand. The pause after the word all creates suspense and emphasis and one again we are left to think of the consequences and of what will to the happen the boy.In line 25 we are told the boys response Dont let him cut my hand off- the doctor, when he comes. Dont let him sister This makes the whole poem even touch because finishedout the poem we are told the story from an outsider but here in this line, we are suddenly given the boys view on the accident.The poem reaches an anti-climax in line 32 They listened at his heart. Little- less-nothing and that ended it. As readers, it is around impossible to believe that the boy died from the incident, and the fact that the word death is not mentioned makes us want to believe that the boy is not dead but has survived . However, some would say that the anti-climax was right at the end of the poem And they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Here, we would expect the family to grieve and not be able to cover on the way they used, because that is how we would expect people to react in todays world. The reception that the boys family has showed is that of sluggishness and in todays world, even if we do not realise it, examples of stoicism are common.Throughout the poem, we can see many of Frosts common techniques that he uses in many poems. For example, in line 6 he uses ambiguity with the word sunset which was mentioned earlier on in this commentary. Many of Frosts poems are in a conversational tone such as Mending Wall, plateful Burial and After Apple-Picking. To make the poem more conversational in Out Out, Frost has used words such as so, so as to make it seem like a live conversation. It could also have been used a gap-filler in the poem.Overall, I think that Out Out is a poem to represent the sadness and grief that families have to go through when they lose someone close and how they have to carry on with their lives just because there is nothing else they can do. It is the harsh truth of losing someone close to you, someone you love.