'Out,+Out'

“Out, Out-”  The poem is not classic of Frost’s traditional style - using natural imagery to make a statement about the human condition - at all, and is perhaps unique amongst his body of works.  The poem is narrative**. **
 * //Robert Frost// ** **Yatrik Solanki did this ** ** Published in ** 1916 ** in the  **//Mountain Interval// **collection. During the time of publication, Frost was teaching English at Amherst College in Massachusetts. The story is based on an actual boy’s death working in New England, but whether the incident was a personal relative or friend, or an impersonal account, is unknown. **

Synopsis**: A young boy is working on a saw when, seemingly by mistake, he cuts off his hand. He pleads to his sister to “don’t let [the doctor] cut my hand off!” **
 *  However, when the doctor finally comes, the boy’s hearbeat slowly vanes, and he dies. Frost ends with the lines “And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” **

Theme(s):** Death, and how fickle it is, and how people “turn to their affairs,” in moments, leaving the dead behind, forgotten. **
 *  How fast and randomly death can come by. **

[A few] Literary tools:

> He refrains from himself commenting on the death, presenting instead a morbidly factual view. **
 * **Allusion: the poem’s title is from Macbeth’s speech, where he is mourning the death of his young wife **
 * **The poem is written in mostly blank verse, with iambic pentameter being dominant. **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The use of contrasting imagery -- the serene scene set in the beginning and the morbid dismemberment of the child -- serve as an effective juxtaposition. **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are multiple uses of a broken sentence, separated by a hyphen. As in the title, the interruption enhances the theme of a life (a fullness) ended early. **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frost’s perspective is entirely third person, referring to himself only once when saying “I wish they might have said...”