Drama Worthy Poem 'Out, Out' By Robert Frost
Robert Frost is known for drama worthy poem because something dramatic always happens in his poems. Out, Out by Robert Frost is poem that spoke to me because it was interesting how he could put different elements together to produce such an amazing yet spine chilling poem. By just reading the title, various thoughts will begin to cross your mind like: Is someone being put out? or Is someone trying to escape? The setting of the poem seems to be appear as a boy is out in his backyard cutting wood with a saw. The poem continues as the boy is still cutting wood and the boy is startled as he hears his sister yell out “Supper.” The boy was so excited that he forgot to turn off the saw and ended up cutting off his hand off by accident. The quote
from the poem that started off the situation was:
“His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them ‘Supper.’ At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—
He must have given the hand.”
From this it can be shown that Frost uses strong personification skills as he shows the saw being able to understand what “supper” means. The dramatic situation was that only one of them actually had supper and it wasn’t the boy. He also said, “leaped out at the boy’s hand” which was trying to show that saw was eating (cutting) the boys hand off. Frost uses the “—“ in the stanzas to show momentum as the situation is occurring. The poem Out, Out by Robert Frost was about a little boy dying by cuffing off his hand. “And they, since they, Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” As stated in the poem shows after the boy cut off his hand the people surrounding him acted as if nothing happened. This is entailed by how quickly they were to continue doing their work and forget it ever happened.
from the poem that started off the situation was:
“His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them ‘Supper.’ At the word, the saw,
As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap—
He must have given the hand.”
From this it can be shown that Frost uses strong personification skills as he shows the saw being able to understand what “supper” means. The dramatic situation was that only one of them actually had supper and it wasn’t the boy. He also said, “leaped out at the boy’s hand” which was trying to show that saw was eating (cutting) the boys hand off. Frost uses the “—“ in the stanzas to show momentum as the situation is occurring. The poem Out, Out by Robert Frost was about a little boy dying by cuffing off his hand. “And they, since they, Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” As stated in the poem shows after the boy cut off his hand the people surrounding him acted as if nothing happened. This is entailed by how quickly they were to continue doing their work and forget it ever happened.