Analysis Of Out, Out By Robert Frost

Frost affects the tone through word choice because he uses the word “perish” to give emphasis of the world vanishing. Instead of using words like disappear or leave, he uses perish because it gives the poem a stronger meaning. He also uses the word “destruction” to give the poem an intense feeling. By using this word, he makes the poem deeper and stronger than it already is.

Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out –“ is about a boy who has his arm sawed off during work and asks his sister not to let the doctor amputate his arm, he then realizes he’s lost too much blood and then dies while doctors try to save him. After his death everyone else continues on with their work and lives. Frost uses a lot of end-stopped lines, enjambment, repetition and personification among others in his lines of poetry.

The author also uses the family’s indifference to symbolize how the world continues to turn even without one less person; “turned to their affairs” expresses the need to continue after loss much like soldiers would have to ignore the bodies of their brothers to continue the fight they lost their lives for. Frost uses the young boy dying at the hand of uncontrollable events to express his theme; though death is cruel and unprecedented by taking the innocent, the world has to continue moving and nothing is to blame except for the event. In the line “…the saw, as if to prove saws knew what supper meant, leaped out of the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—he must have given the hand…”, the author shows that the boy had no control over the saw when it cut his hand. Frost never blames the boy, but instead depicts his innocence by saying that he was old enough to know better but was still a child at heart. In the last two lines, frost becomes indifferent towards the boy’s death because that is what the boy’s family appeared to become. The family did not seem to mourn because like the boy, they had to work to stay

Generally speaking, Frost uses several techniques in his poetry that contribute to an overarching focus on death. Starting with plot and setting, Frost’s poems often describe a rather pleasant situation in nature; since virtually everyone experiences nature, this setup allows Frost's poetry to be universally applicable. These scenes are depicted with a conflict and can usually relate to death. In addition to the plot and setting indicating death, Frost typically refers to an aspect of human nature that contributes physical or emotional pain or death. The connection between societal weakness and human death is arguably one of

Besides this dramatic situation, an underlying an alternate meaning arises in the poem, seen directly as Frost, as the author, interacting in the poem. The poem is organized into only one stanza and is in iambic pentameter, with the exception of several lines. This, obviously not a coincidence, is a representation for Frost 's love for the playful and intertwined nature of content and form. The own poem, through its one stanza, and constant iambic pentameter form, save for

Frost engages poetic structure to increase the irony of his poem, and interchanges between two different tones. Shock and appreciative are mixed together with lyrical lines. The tone shifts

The author then uses a caesura in line 27 to end the tone of the previous lines of the poem, and switches to a more remorseful tone. “So. But the hand was gone already.” (line 27) The author then uses imagery to demonstrate the suspense of the situation. “... the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.” (line 28-29) The last few lines of the poem show how those responsibilities can be merciless. Everyone continuing on living without giving the boy a second thought after being killed by the saw, which symbolizes said responsibilities, demonstrates how the world doesn’t stop and wait for someone to catch up. The boy couldn’t handle the challenges of being an adult, so although he wasn’t abandoned, no one was anguished at the boys passing. “And they, since they Were not the ones dead, turned to their affairs” (lines 33-34)

No poet does a better job of stressing the abruptness of death as Frost does in his poem, “Out, out –”. Death is the one of the more central themes among most works of art and normally befalls on the speaker’s loved one. In this case, “Out, out –” is about an innocent boy who accidentally severs his hand with a buzz saw; the entire scene and the family’s reactions described by an observer. Throughout the poem, Frost finds creative ways to intensify the boy’s death and readers may wonder why he focuses on such a profound and distressing issue. Every verse builds up upon one another, sometimes enjambed together with a variety of figurative language, until the boy succumbs to his injury. By combining an irregular form of iambic pentameter with dark symbolism, Frost captures the inevitably of death and its cruel, unpredictable appearances.

For example, this line can represent Frost struggling as a poet. Therefore, the meaning of the entire poem is represented in this line. However, others may disagree. They may state that the first three stanzas describe death as a total state of loneliness and emptiness and the meaning of the poem is hidden in the forth stanza. Clearly, every reader can see this poem from the different perspective applying their own experiences for its better

Robert Frost uses alliteration in the poem to emphasize the key elements of his sentences. With his use of alliteration, every line has a different connotation associated with different emotions that the speaker may feel. At the start of the poem, Frost’s words flow smoothly, which emphasizes the absentmindedness of the speaker as they stand before the forest. Although, when Frost writes “gives his harness bells a shake / to ask if there is some mistake"(Frost, 9), he employs the harsh use of the letter “k” as a reminder of the speaker’s responsibilities. The switch between the uses of flowing, smooth words to the use of alliteration of the letter “k” serves as a method to show the reader that the speaker has had a sudden realization about the demands of the real world. The use of softer sounding consonants has also been incorporated in order to set the scene for the reader. The speaker is trekking in a winter storm and stops to observe nature, which is shown through the repetitive use of the consonant “s” as well as “w”, which are letters that sound like the wind in a storm. For instance, when Frost writes, “The only other sound’s the sweep” (Frost, 11), the soft sounding letters reminds the reader of a winter storm which serves as a way for the reader to emerge themselves into the poem and to feel as though, they too, are in a snowstorm. By allowing the reader to imagine the scenery in the storm, it puts into perspective the difficulty the speaker must have been having between choosing to give

Robert Frost was an American poet born on March 26, 1874. Living to the age of eighty eight, Frost was able to become an accomplished poet in his lifetime, creating beautiful works of art through his words. In many of his poems one can find similar themes that discuss intense feelings and ideas about isolation and loneliness in one’s life, such as in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Mending Wall”. Each of the following poems discussed will demonstrate that throughout Robert Frost’s poetry one can find an overarching theme of loneliness and isolation for the speaker.

But such a view of the poem is straightforward and somehow superficial. By focusing on the literal meaning on the surface of the poem, most people fail to recognize the deep inclinations and secret motivations that Frost conveys through his clever and intriguing word play that renders a diversity of meaning. The poem must mean more than just a traveler appreciating the beauty of nature. It might be a deep metaphor that represents something else which trumpets the love for nature. To get a deeper understanding of this classic and phenomenal

The theme of this poem is nature and loss. Frost is very up front about his message, nothing gold can stay. It is further emphasized by personification. In the end the message is put on display.

First and foremost, the reality and responsibility theme are connected to some of Frost’s poetry. For an instance, in “Birches,” the speaker of the poem wishes that he could somehow swinging on the tree birches like he did in his childhood. Every time, the speaker see the birches bend, he tend to think of boy’s swinging on them. He wishes that he could swing on the birches as he did in his childhood and escape to heaven. However, he need to accept the reality that he is an adult and cannot leave his responsibility on earth. The

Robert Frost’s Out, out is a simple and tragic story of a young man who gets his hand cut off during a work accident and bleeds to death. It was written in 1916, during the first World War. The poem, which is a dramatic monologue, begins with noisy surroundings where there are machines operating and people working continuosly; however, the noise breaks when his sister announces the word “supper” to her little brother, and the boy accidentally gets his hand cut off by the saw-machine. All the noise then only focuses on the boy. The young man dies dreadfully, but everyone else goes back to work. Through such incident, Robert Frost suggests how death happens momentarily and life still continues.