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In Robert Frost's poem, "Out, out—", find a use of: paradox, metaphor, irony, metonymy, allusion, personification, symbol, and imagery. The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,...
In Robert Frost's poem, "Out, out—", there are a number of literary devices employed. Paradox is seen with the following line which describes the boy doing a man's job. One might be confused that a...
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Personification is a literary device whereby an inanimate object is given human or animate qualities. The personification in the poem "Out, Out -" has to do with the saw. The saw is described as...
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The main personification in this poem is of the saw itself. The saw snarls. Then, when the boy is distracted, it leaps out and gets him. These are things that living things can do but a saw...
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The sense of horror starts with the setting of the poem. Frost carefully establishes the scenic and peaceful surroundings in which the action of the poem takes place. Amidst the aroma of the...
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Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out--" is the story of a young boy "Doing a man's work, though a child at heart--" (l. 24); the boy is using a saw to cut wood. Frost creates a sense of foreboding from...
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The buzz saw in Robert Frost's "Out--Out--" symbolizes the mindless power of machinery that, when out of the control of man, can destroy human life. Published in 1916 when Britain was already...
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A literary device is a device used in writing to convey some kind of imaginative effect. Even the title uses the literary device of repetition in order to engage the reader. Line one greets us...
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Metaphor is a comparison of two different things. When you compare something to a human, that is a type of metaphor called personification. Poets use metaphor to evoke a mental image. In this...
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To me, the last line reflects a really terrible view of human nature on the part of Robert Frost (or at least on the part of whoever is narrating the poem). The last line calls into question the...
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The allusion to Macbeth refers to obsession with blood and guilt. An allusion is a reference to history or another literary work. Allusions to Shakespeare are common, as Shakespeare had a great...
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"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost, a great American poet, is representative of his poems that use many figurative language elements to achieve its effect. Based on a real event from Frost's life, the...
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It seems to me that we would need to know what your paper is saying before we can help you to craft a thesis statement that would be appropriate for that paper. You say that you have the rest of...
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The theme of this poem is the idea that fate, or chance, has a huge impact on our life. It is almost as if fate has a life of its own -- it goes around doing stuff to us and we can't stop it. In...
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The boy being described in "Out, Out" is doing a man's work - using the buzz-saw to cut wood for the fire. The saw is helping with this hard work because it is powerful and strong, capable of...
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This narrative poem by Frost tells the story of a young boy using a buzz-saw to saw wood who mortally injures himself. The poet gets our attention in the first line with onomatopoeia imitating the...
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The poem “Out, Out—“ by Robert Frost was based on an actual farm accident that killed a neighbor boy when Frost was a boy himself. The title of the poem is found in the Shakespearean play Macbeth....
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Interestingly, "snarl" and "rattle" are both etymological equivalents. "Snarl" comes from the German word for "rattle." Both words are onomatopoeic, meaning that the words imitate the sound they...
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The saw is an excellent example of a symbol in the poem. The saw that seems to "leap" with a life of its own and subsequently cuts off the boys hand can be seen to symbolize fate. The boy didn't...
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In "Out, Out—," Robert Frost explores the theme of loss in a number of ways. Firstly, he uses the title of the poem to suggest that life is very fragile and that it is easily lost. To do this,...
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The poem “Out, Out—“ by Robert Frost was based on an actual event. The Frost family’s young neighbor boy lost his hand while using a saw and lost so much blood that his heart stopped. This was...
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The tragedy of the poem is born of the fact that the accident occurs so close to the end of the workday. It happens at sunset (line 6), when the boy's sister is interrupting his work, saying supper...
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The poem recounts a day when the men and boys are working in the yard cutting firewood with a buzz saw. The setting is in Vermont, where five mountain ranges can be seen in the background. It is...
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The poem “Out, Out—“ by Robert Frost was based on an actual incident in Frost’s life. In April 1915, a neighbor and friend of the Frost family lost his hand to a buzz saw, and he bled so profusely...
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Robert Frost's grisly poem "Out, Out" tells the story of a young boy cutting fire wood who gets his hand caught in the saw, nearly severing it. He startles when his sister calls out for supper...
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Frost uses several techniques to ensure that the saw appears sinister and threatening in "'Out, Out--.'" First, "snarled and rattled," the sounds made by the saw, are repeated; they suggest a...
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To me, the main message of this poem is that things happen just because of fate or chance or whatever. And these things totally change people's lives. Think about what happens in this poem. The...
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Life goes on. The boy made a fatal mistake and Frost says "No more to build on there" meaning the boy is now useless to his family. He can't be taught anything else and so those who are left must...
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The commas and periods throughout "Out, Out - " are indications of slight pauses or the end of a sentence, as in most written literature. The colon in the ninth line ("nothing happened: day was all...
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This is one of my least favorite poems of Frost's because of what happens. The poem starts with a group of people sawing wood in their yard. They are using an electric saw. It is getting to be...
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Caesura is a pause in the middle of a line of poetry. It was originally meant as a place for Anglo-Saxon scops to draw in a breath given the length of the poetry they were reciting. While the use...
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To me, this poem is exploring the issue of whether bad things are just random things that happen for no reason and can't be explained or whether they are things that we should really examine and...
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"Out, out" is a moderately complex poem based on a true life event. In 1915, a neighbors' son's hand was severed by a buzz saw. There are several themes at work in this thirty-nine line poem. The...
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I have answered each of your questions below, and for your convenience I have included the questions in order. The allusion in the title of this poem is an allusion to Macbeth by William...
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Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out--" is a simple and sad story of a young boy who cuts off his hand in a work accident and ultimately bleeds to death. The poem is not only a comment on the brevity of...
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Blank verse is a special type of non-rhyming poem. The poem is written in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter describes the way Shakespeare wrote, so you are probably familiar with the rhythm....
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Literally, references to sunset and time are significant to the plot because it affects when the boy will cut his hand off with the saw and die. Symbolically, these references to time foreshadow...
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I think that Frost creates a real sense of tragedy in the family's reaction to the death of the boy. The child's death is tragic, but it is not tragedy in that it is more of a chance, sad chance,...
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The language Frost uses in his poems is always carefully chosen to convey the feeling or meaning he wants to create. Certainly, the words he uses to talk about the saw, from the very beginning of...
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This is an interesting line. Here, the speaker may be attempting to determine whose fault the accident really was. He states that the saw, which is personified frequently in this poem, "seemed to...
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“Out,Out—“ by Robert Frost is based on a real event. When he was a teenager, Frost’s neighbor friend had his hand cut off in an accident. This became the basis for this narrative poem. Another...
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As with much of his work, Robert Frost sets his poem "Out, Out—" somewhere in rural New England. In lines four and five Frost indicates that the boy is working in Vermont with five mountain ranges...
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The poem is indeed a narrative poem. It tells the story of a young man who has a fatal buzz-saw accident. As he is cutting wood, his sister rings the bell for supper, and the saw slips slicing...
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In this title, Frost tips his poetic hat to Shakespeare's line: "Out, out damn spot!" It also is relevant to the content of the poem, as it has application to the topic addressed in its...
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Frost is using a very unemotional and detached tone of voice in describing the tragic event recorded in "Out, Out." There is no personal involvement or connection between the voice telling the...
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The time of day is ironic because it is dinner time and the end of work, but also the end of the boy’s life. Irony refers to something unexpected happening. It means that there is a double meaning...
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The poem "Out, out --" by Robert Frost is titled as an allusion to a passage from Macbeth by Shakespeare. In the allusion passage, Macbeth is commenting on the fragility of life, and the...
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This poem, which is based on a real-life event, is full of striking images. The most impressive one, in my opinion, occurs early in the poem when the narrator describes "five mountain ranges one...
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This is one of my favorite poems by Frost. The poem's story, though graphic and tragic, makes use of so many types of figurative language that it serves as one of the great imagery poems. I...
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Robert Frost's poem, "Out, Out—" is a poem written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) in which an unidentified third-person narrator describes a farm accident resulting in the death of a...
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This horrifying and bleak poem is about a boy who was using a self-powered buzz saw late in the day. His sister came to tell him that it was supper time, and, maybe because he wasn't paying...