Poetic Analysis Of Out, Out By Robert Frost

Poetic Analysis Of “Out, Out-” By Robert Frost In the poem “Out, Out-”, Robert Frost uses multiple literary devices, to help us imagine the horrible conditions of the workforce, mostly containing children and women, during World War One. To child labor, short lives, all the way to murder, Robert Frost isn’t afraid to use his words in order to cover the bases. Robert Frost’s use of imagery benefits of astoundedly when attempting to picture the working women and children as their husbands and father fight for the freedom of our country. The first piece of imagery takes place in the very first line, “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard.” The detail helps us depict the noise that runs through one child’s ears almost daily. The mountain

Which helps us depict working class citizens and minors getting paid by the hour while adult men are getting killed by the hour. Scripted in lines seven and eight, Frost compared how intense the noise of the saw was depending on the density and sturdiness of the object being sawed in multiple pieces. Once again, on lines fourteen and fifteen, we come across another simile. “To tell them “Supper.” At the word, the saw, As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant.’ Using context clues, and the entire subject of the poem, “supper” meaning that the saw was about to cut something up piece, by piece. The pieces meaning the child’s very own small, precious, hand. The last simile I noticed took place in lines nineteen and twenty. “Half an appeal, but half as if to keep your life from spilling.” Your blood is practically your life. Just in liquid form. You need it to live. See, you have your organs, and they don’t spill if the end up on the ground. Thanks to gravity, they fall on the floor. Similes are another large puzzle piece. They are a big plus in “Out, Out-” , similes benefit us, by forming an imagination of working women and children working together to make life a tad bit easier for

Giving us the icing on the cake, the tip of the iceberg, the cherry on top of a sundae of the blue collared crowd at the time. The entire poem has mainly three themes. Those themes are, death, work, and brief life. All but one relate to the skit or play, “Hamlet”. Written by the one and only, legendary, Shakespeare. First thing’s first, the title alone is it’s own reference itself. “Out, out, brief candle!” Meaning a flame can end so quickly. Like a snap of the fingers. In the title of the poem, it is being cut off! Just like the child’s hand before line twenty-five and after line twenty-four. Somewhere between those lines. A second reference is blood on his hands. After the woman murdered the man, she had his blood on her hands. She couldn’t get the blood off of her hands! As if it was tattooed onto them. She tried and tried to wash off the blood, but it just wouldn’t come off. So she wouldn’t get caught killing the man she killed herself. Lines twenty-nine and thirty, his arm, being cut off led to the poor boy’s death by significant amount of blood loss. So, if you don’t know the story of “Hamlet”, a man is murdered. The woman who is held responsible for it tried to get the blood off her hands. It wouldn’t come off so she had killed herself. Thank the good Lord for references. Without them, this poem would be pretty much