Robert Frost's Out-Out

One of the first poems I’ll be analyzing in this essay is by Robert Frost, “Out-Out”. Frost has a unique method of embodiment to create certain emotions in this poem. The buzz saw, though in a sense, it’s a type of tool, is better known as being, aggressively snarling and rattling as it does its work. When the sister makes the dinner announcement, the saw demonstrates that it has a mind of its own by “jumping” out of the boy’s hand in its excitement. Robert Frost wouldn’t like to lay blame for the injury on the boy, who is still a “child at heart”, even if he is intelligent of learning how to do things in life. Not only blaming the saw, Frost claims that it was also the adults’ fault at the scene for not prevailing and telling the boy to
Reputation, or success, and their lack of failure would frequently occur as a theme in Dickinson’s poetry. Oddly enough, this poem, is praising the virtues of failure, remained one of her poems to be published, although after heavy preaching. While this poem’s publication may have obscured the situation, it can still be read as being largely about Dickinson’s own failure to publish her poetry, that shows how even the most intelligent and creative people can fail some time to time, even though she removes the poem and its failures from herself by using only third-person narration and an distant, unemotional
The opening two lines deal with success directly, followed by two metaphors; starvation and loss in battle. Of these, the battle metaphor gets by far the majority of the lines, which seems to emphasize the fact that success often requires the failure of another. Sometimes we learn from our failures to improve and help climb higher to our goals. So no matter how many times we mess things up, we keep trying again and keep moving