Title: The title Out, out refers back to the time of Macbeth when Macbeth quotes “ Out, out brief candle”. This reflects on life and how it can be unpredictable and you don’t know when it is Going to end. In the first paragraph of the poem they refer to the nature. “Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it”. The quote shows sibilance sweeting the smell of death of trees. Also explains to us that breathing, nature is alive.
Rhyme Structure: There is no rhyme structure in Frost’s poem Out, out. With the poem having know structure its represents life in a way of being unpredictable with death becoming the main part in the poem. With the boy dying at the end of the poem the workers have to go back to work as if nothing happened so they can go and get on with their lives.
Emotive Language: The emotion used in Frost’s poem Out, out is quite ambiguous with this one especially because it has know structure as I found it hard to understand. With understanding a bit about the poem I sense that there is unpredictability on what has happened to the boy. 'Don't let him cut my hand off the doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' The quote uses exclamatory language showing his urgency on how badly he doesn’t want the Doctor to cut his hand off.
Message Frost’s message in this poem is showing the unpredictability of life. Frost refers this to Macbeth’s line “Out, out brief candle”. This shows that life can be fast and quick like a candle, gone within a blink of an eye. When things go wrong such as death there is a time when your sad and devote your time to what has just happened but also you have to go on with your own lives and not let it interfere with what you have going on.
Themes The theme of Frost's poem is about the shortness of life and how death is unavoidable. The poem is about a boy that is killed to young in a tragic accident. With his death everyone is in the mind set that everyone will die someday which is true.
Imagery Imagery used in the poem is when Frost mentions that the saw leaped out at the boy “Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap” the quote used here shows imagery by Frost saying the saw leaped out at him.
The title for “out, out” comes from a scene at the end of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare when he says “out, out brief candle” because this is a literary illusion to life being so short and un expectable and brief and how anything can change in an instant
Rhythm structure
The rhythm of the poem is unusual and dose not follow the usual structure of a poem as it is an unstructured poem. but frost dose this on purpose as the unstructured nature of the poem reflects the main crux of what he is trying to get across in the poem, that being that life is uncertain and anything at any point in life can happen.
Emotive language
Frost uses sensory imagery to evoke the readers emotions by stirring emotions of happiness at the start by describing “Sweet-scented stuff” at the start then using personification to describe the spinning blade that cut the young boys hand off so by the end of the poem we develop a strong hate towards an inanimate object which without this use of language would normally be hard to develop
Message
The key message that frost tries to develop in the poem is that how unexpected and unpredictable that life can be.
Themes
The themes in the poem consist of life and death, unhappiness and fear. These all coincide with the message as they all promote the idea that he is trying to push towards the audience that is reading.
Imagery
Strong imagery is used in the poem to evoke the emotions of love, hate, beauty and misery. He describes the “ five mountain ranges one being the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” to help paint a picture of the beautiful mountains of Vermont which is a contradiction to the second half of the poem which is filled with sorrow, pain and death.
The overall tone of the poem has two halves, which was cleverly constructed by frost to pull at the readers emotions. A happy, peaceful tone is used at the start done by describing the wonderful mountains of Vermont, it then changes to one of desperation and sadness when talking about the death of the young boy. Frost purposefully dose this to reiterate the crux of the poem of life being un predictable and uncertain as the course of the poem dramatically changes from one happy tone to a sadder more depressed tone
title out out is actually a literary allusion, referring to the shakesperean play macbeth and more significantly the soliloquy spoken by macbeth after he wife dies, specifically the lines “out out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow” is actually a metaphor which shakespeare uses to describe the unpredictable and short nature of life, of how a candle which represents life is bright and beautiful but with a simple breeze can be blown “out out”, as does life represent a shadow and all shadows exist in light but at some point that light will go out and the “walking shadow” will no longer exist, similarly to life and how it all must come to an end
rhyme there no rhyming structure to this poem thus meaning it is a free verse, which compliment the central idea of the poem of how life has no script and it is not laid out for us nor is it predictable you can never preempt what is going to happen next. just as the boy can not predetermine what would happen next, an unforeseeable outcome.
emotive language the poem starts off with the explanation of the setting and the beauty of it “sweet scented stuff” using sibilance to emphasise this line and engaging our olfactory senses, the reader then gets a sense of serene working class life. but the poem turns to the emotions of mourning “call it a day, i wish they said” emotive language emphasises the mourning and gloom that the persona was feeling at the time of the accident prompting that the poem is a recount giving the poem a realistic effect of how shocking this incident was to the persona, that he will never forget this day and the actions that took place to the boy.
message the message of the poem again referring to macbeths soliloquy “out out brief candle” life has an unscripted nature about it meaning that you cannot go on life as it is planned out for you, life is unpredictable and with this unpredictability life can be “brief” and we do not know can happen next. life can much like the fate of the boy can end so abruptly and suddenly.”since they were not the ones dead, they turned to their affairs” life can also be insignificant in the ongoings of the world, “turned to their affairs” these workmen after witnessing the death of this child return to work as if nothing happened, symbolising yes death does happen but over time the human race has become accustomed to the notion of death that the close deaths may affect us greatly, the other however mean very little to us.
themes the recount of the boy, although it does start of peaceful ends in a tale of sorrow so rapidly within this poem in backs up the theme that life is so brief and it can change in an instant and us as people do not know when this is going to happen adding the theme that life is unscripted which compliment the briefness of life
imagery there is imagery of the surrounding landscape “under the sunset far into vermont” presents the poem as stated before in a serene and beautiful environment, but his rapidly changes as frost does not give a us an gory explanation of the severed hand, he does describe the emotions of the boy. frost then goes on to give us an description of the boys death “little-less-nothing” with the hyphens in between the words the reader reads these words with a pause between them as to give the shrinking on the life inside the boy and how is slowly being laid to rest
techniques frost uses a variety of techniques no explain the themes and messages within the poem, imagery to explain the landscape and the boys death, the title itself is an literary allusion he also uses vast amounts of emotive language, as well as the personification of the saw to emphasise the lethal and vicious nature of it
Title – The title “Out out” immediately shows to us that life is extremely short and so unpredictable. Shakespeare once said “out, out brief candle”. In this quote Shakespeare uses a metaphor to explain that life is like a candle. The relevance between life and a candle is that one blow of wind and the candle will blow out and one small accident like the buzz saw cutting the boys arm off ends his life instantly. Therefore this metaphor shows that life can be ended so quickly and instantly.
Rhyme Structure – This poem ‘Out Out’ doesn’t have any real rhyme structure that is followed throughout the poem. The effect that Frost is trying to portray with not having a structure is showing that life is so unpredictable with many things but mainly death in this poem. With the boy dying towards the end of the poem, although the death is a major shock to the family they all still have to continue on with their lives. “Were not the dead one, turned to their affairs.”
Emotive language – The emotive language used in Frosts poem ‘Out out’ in some parts is very strong and powerful. The unpredictable structure of this poem also helps the emotive language be more powerful towards the reader. Towards the end of the poem when the boys hand has been cut off Frost uses emotive language to express the scared and worried nature he is in. “Don’t let him cut my hand off, The doctor, when he comes, don’t let him sister”. This quote uses emotive language to set the mood of the poem and show the fear the boy is facing.
Message – The main message that Frost is trying to get across in the poem is that life is so unpredictable and you will never know what is around the corner. He shows this in the poem with the small boys death, firstly he is just having some fun cutting the wood and then unexpectedly he is bleeding to death. This shows how unpredictable life can be. Frost is also stating that when tragedies like these happen in life although they are stuck in your mind, you have to keep moving on with life.
Themes – The themes of Frosts poem that he is trying to portray are happiness and misery. These themes relate back to the main message of the poem. The themes are used with happiness at the start saying how good life is with the dreamy like atmosphere “Under the sunset, far into Vermont”. Then suddenly moving into the theme of misery when the boy unfortunately dies from blood loss “little—less – nothing and that is ended”. This quote shows the sound of the heart beat as the boys heart begins to stop beating.
Imagery – The imagery that is used in this poem is mainly personification, this is what brings the buzz saw to life. Frost uses personification to reveal it as a demon “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”. This quote shows that using personification it makes the saw sound more intimidating and more human like towards the small boy.
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Very good work on the poem, I'm very happy with how you've got the idea of quote, technique, analysis.
Try to make sure you don't say, "this quotes shows that..." OR "this quote uses personification..." Just say what you want to say, otherwise it sounds a little unacademic and simple.
Title Out Out is a literary allusion that refers to a line from the play Macbeth. Macbeth says “Out, out, brief candle” after his wife dies. Shakespeare and Frost both share the view that life is like a candle and if the wind blows your life can end like candle in the wind.
Rhyme Structure There is no rhyme structure. The lack of rhyme accentuates the chaos in the poem which reminds the reader that much like the style of rhyme, there is no structure to ones life.
Emotive Language The child screaming in first person?
Message The message of Out Out is that life can be ended at anytime. Unlike the poem ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the reader is made to feel a sense of insecurity in their lives. This view contradicts the message in the poem ‘The road not taken’ where it makes the reader feel like he/she is in charge of their destiny.
Themes The themes of unpredictability and death are resolute within this poem. Robert Frost plays with the theme of death to show that life is unpredictable.
Imagery Visual imagery is used at the start of the poem to give the reader an idea of what the scenery is like. The visual imagery of the mountains and trees is then contrasted by the visual description of the buzz saw.
Techniques Imagery, Nature Imagery, First Person, Ambiguous Tone, Emotive Language, Descriptive Language, personification, repetition and alliteration.
The Poem, “Out, Out!” By Robert Frost. The Title, “Out, Out!” is an indirect reference to the play, ‘Macbeth’ where, Macbeth, the King, quotes: “Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.” This Quote symbolizes the briefness of life, once alive, can be snuffed out in a second’s will, exactly like a candle.
Rhythm Structure “Out, Out” Does not have a rhythmic structure, but a scrambled, unarranged structure. This technique is symbolic to the fact that life is a scramble, unarranged and uncertain. There is no identifiable poem structure.
Emoting Structure There are some emotive structures in the poem: “Sweet scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.” As the young boy cuts the wood, sweet smelling scent is released. “And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled.” The deliberate repeat emphasizes the ferocity of the saw.
Message The message portrayed in this poem. I think that the message portrayed in this poem is that life can change in the blink of an eye. “To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw, As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap - He must have given the hand.” His says, “Supper”, indicating the end of the day, but at that second, the saw gets out of hand, and saws his hand off. He eventually dies from his hand getting sawed off.
Themes The Robert Frost feels uncertain of life and the negativities of life.
Techniques Juxtaposition: The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh. If your rueful, you do not laugh. Stotic: Life can change in a blink of an eye. No Chain of thought: No train of thought, no order in life.
Tones: The tone of the poem is very negative, depressing. It starts off with the resolution; the end of the day, with supper. Then dramatically decreases to the death of a boy.
You've got good ideas - just to be more specific with them. Take your time when you write. Don't be afraid to write less (although you need to achieve word limits) as long as what you write makes sense.
The title ‘Out Out’ doesn’t directly state what the poem is about or anything about the little boy’s tragic accident. This gives us a feeling of suspense. The fact that we don’t know what we are exactly going to read in the poem relates to the theme of unpredictability and not knowing what we are going to come across. The term ‘Out Out’ can be seen as a literary allusion to the soliloquy found in Macbeth. Macbeth states that “Out, out, brief candle!”. This suggests that life is similar to a light on candle and once the light is blown out, its all over. Similarly when the little boy’s hand was decapitated, it happened so quick and his life was over like the light that can be blown out by the wind.
Rhythm and Structure:
‘Out Out’ is a free verse poem that is formed in a way that it is very unstructured unlike most poems you would find to be structured in a way that they are split up into equal stanzas. The fact that the poem is unstructured tells us something about the poem. Just like the poem talks about how life is unpredictable and it can be unstructured. When we as the responder reads a well structured poem, we can almost predict the tone, pauses and the timing of each verse, that is not the case with ‘Out Out’. As this poem is unstructured, we can not make out the general rhythm of so we can say that the poem is structured in an unpredictable way. The structure and unpredictability of the poem relates very well to the concept of the poem which is that life is unpredictable and can be unstructured.
Emotive Language:
The poem starts with describing some of the beautiful aspects of the atmosphere “Sweet Scented stuff” using sibilance. Our olfactory senses become engaged by this sibilance, not only does Frost use the visual appearences of things to emphasise beauty but also the senses of smell.
The use of emotive language is used very effectively in the scene of the boy’s last moments of life as he suffers the fright “Please Don’t let him cut my hand off— The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!”. The words of the boy give off an emotional feeling of tragedy and sadness.
Message:
The message of the poem is that life is very much unpredictable and life can be cruel even when the sweetest and innocent soul has to experience the brutality as experienced by the boy’s sister “His sister stood beside him in her apron To tell them ‘Supper.”
Themes: The themes included in this poem are placed throughout the introduction in a very juxtaposed way. The poem is started as very harsh and sharp, already we respond to a theme of unpleasantness “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard.” In the third line a theme of beauty and sweetness is created with the scene of nature. When we get from the introductory themes to the scene where the boy has the accident, we notice a theme of regret as if the persona is reflecting back on the idea of ‘what if’ and what he wishes could had happened when he says “Call it a day, I wish they might have said”. After the accident we enter a theme of depression and tragedy. The theme of suffering is shown when the boy exclaims “Don’t let him cut my hand off”
In the beginning frost uses a lot of imagery in the poem. The image of beauty of landscape nature is then followed by a harsh and unpleasant imagery of the buzz saw and how it “Snarled and rattled in the yard”. As we repeat the words describing the buzz saw in our mind, we can notice how they are very sharp words to say and they don’t flow through as much. This effect of sharpness prints a negative image about the scene Frost is describing.
Techniques:
The use of many techniques are found in “Out Out”. In the beginning, Frost describes the image of the buzz saw working in the yard, he personifies the buzz saw by giving it a character of the human personality by stating that it “snarled…”. Giving the buzz saw the personality of human nature does 2 things, one, it emphasizes the importance of its role in the poem and it makes it so that we as people can relate to such things. The repetition of the phrase “Rattled and snarled” is used throughout the poem till the moment of the accident to build up the negative mood and emotions within us, also it becomes as a foreshadowing term for the accident. At the moment of the accident, Frost again personifies the buzz saw as the buzz saw “Leaped out at the boy’s hand”. This personification allows is to imagine what the scene looked like as the poet has given the buzz saw human characteristics.
In the poem, Frost refrains from giving a name to ‘the boy’ even though he is the main focus of the text. Infact, no characters of the poem have been named or given a name or a personality of some sort, the poet has done this so that the responders can keep their focus more towards the emotions given off by the characters instead of us judging their personalities. The poet has also limited the amount of dialogue used by the characters again so we can focus towards the emotions and not the personalities. This simplistic characterization instantly makes us believe that they characters are innocent and do not deserve to have such emotions inflicted towards them.
When we are experiencing the final seconds of the boy’s life, the poet doesn’t directly state that the boy died. He implies death by describing the beats of the boys heart “Litte – Less – Nothing”, Frost uses pauses so the rhythm of the line becomes slow as if the boys life is fading out and at that point, we assume that the boy’s life has ended. The soft tone of the last few lines relieve the intensity built up in the previous lines before the death of the boy. (sorry i went a little over 500 words)
Using TREMTITT as your 'spine', analyse in 500 words Robert Frost's 'Out, Out'.
Title
Frost used the title “Out, Out” to show the literary allusion to the soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, which reads "Out, out, brief candle!” Frost had used the idea of the ‘candle’ symbolising life and how quickly a candle can just be blown out like in how life can be gone in just a snap.
Rhyme Structure
Robert Frost manages to structure the poem by using a free verse which has no rhyming structure as life is not structured
Emotive Language
In the opening stanza, Frost reveals us with a sibilance on the third line with “Sweet-scented stuff” meaning sweetening the smell of dead trees which is pretty much indicating it’s a new morning. During the poem, Frost turns it completely around as the boy’s hand gets chopped off
Message
The message behind the poem is that we live in a ‘cruel world’ and we can never expect anything to happen. The actions of the tragedy was not by decision but it couldn’t be avoided.
Theme
The themes Frost was trying to get the readers is to create an atmosphere of depression how we can start off “under the sunset” and end tragically with a life lost instantaneously.
Imagery
Frost manages to start an image of the natural landscape and is ended with a dark and horrid imagery of the saw and how it “snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled” noticing how Frost used saw in our mind. This impact of alertness describes a depressing atmosphere with the words “Little—less—nothing!” with the hyphens in between the words sets the mood instantly giving it a pause and the drama and tension that went through.
Techniques
Imagery, Repetition, First Person, Emotive Language, Personification, Sibilance
Tile: Frost allude to the literary allusion of the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Presenting that life is very unfortunate can could end anytime, just like a brief candle, does not last forever. By calling the poem out out, Frost agree with Shakespeare of life is short and unexpected. A candle start off with a whole one that work its way down until it reaches the bottom. However, during that the candle can also be blow out in a second.
Rhyme structure/Tone: The poem is read in two different tone that fills the mood of the poem. The poem starts off with a steady rhyme which suit the description of the section such as “Sweet - scented stuff when the breeze drew across it”. However, about half way through the poem the mood, rhyme and tone changes into a sorry and despair feeling.
Emotive Language: Frost uses emotive language to express different aspect of the poem. Such as the environment, the mood and character. As the day start off with “As it ran light, or had to bear a load”. Presenting it is just a normal day at the work shop. When suddenly, “Neither refused the meeting. But the hand! The boys first outcry was a rueful laugh”. The boys has let out a laugh, but that laugh was a rueful one which mean that it is a awful cried.
Message: The message that Frost is trying to get across is that life is unexpected and anything could happen anytime. Some of the thing where you just wish it never happened. As shown in “Call it a day, I wish they might have said”. That some path shouldn’t be touch but we can’t change the future.
Theme: The main theme of this poem covers the sense of unexpected life and instant death. Referring to the life span of a candle.
Imagery: Frost uses different imagery such as llusive imagery to express many event in the poem. Such as when “As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant”. Giving the saw personification of understanding humans words and the ironic of supper - blood. Could symbolise of ‘supper’ for the saw.
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There are some errors with some of the techniques - check what you've written about Imagery - and some spelling and grammar BUT I've been very proud of what you've done so far.
Title “Out Out”, the title in combination with the poem is very up front in the way it suggests how life is not a secure thing, and how it can be gone in an instant. Out , out was originally in a Shakespearian play “Out, out brief candle”, even in this play it is used to describe the unpredictably of life. How a candle is burning bright and with a slight breeze in no chance be extinguished.
Rhyme struture The poem what made in the free lance style for a reason, and is connected to the title and message of poem, how life is unpredictable, variable or unstructured. Frost takes a very absurdist stance in the way that he writes his poem as see in many times through out, “when he comes. Don't let him, sister!”, “the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart.”. Frost is a skilled poet and that is what confirms that he has done it for a reason.
Emotive language The way in which frost describes the goodness in life and rushes into the harsh details of the boys death is very emotive. “sweet scented stuff”, and “The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.”, this use of the positive language at the beginning puts emphises on the boys death at the end. “And they, since the Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” This at the end of the poem forces more emotion as it shows a lack care for the boy, because the others aren’t died they don’t care.
Message The central message of the poem is that life is similar to the fate of the boy and can end unexpectedly and suddenly. “since they were not the ones dead, they turned to their affairs” showing how insignificant life is, as the people carry on with there work, “turned to their affairs”. As a result of life being so unexpected and like a candle flame, gone with just a breeze, the human life is rightly so, depicted as fragile and minor compared to bigger things.
Themes This poem touches on the concepts of life and death the unpredictability of human life, happiness and sadness. These are all displayed in the form of a story where a young boy dies as a result of chopping his hand off with a saw and bleeding to death.
Imagery Large amounts of imagery is used at the start of poem to detail the landscape, “under the sunset far into Vermont”, at the start of the poem this beautiful imagery creates a high in the poem, giving the reader a fails sense of where the story is going. Frost them uses imagery in many places ofter that using it to describe the saw “the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled”, in this instance making the saw, an inadamit object, seem as if it wants to kill the boy. “They listened at his heart. Little -- less -- nothing!”, Imagery is again used here where the life is see as slowly leaving the boy body.
Techniques Frost uses many techniques to help express the themes and central conepts within the poem, to show to beauty of the landscape and the boys intimate death, the title itself is an literary allusion he also uses vast amounts of emotive language, as well as the personification of the saw.
Title The title Out, Out directly relates to Shakespeare's play Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth kills herself, Macbeth realises that life is short and says "out, out brief candle", which is a literary allusion to Frost's poem.
Rhyme Structure The structure for Out, Out in Frost's poem is free verse, which keeps a flowing feel to the poem. At the end of each line there is no full stop or coma as such, but the poem continues onto the next line and it wouldn't have made sense if the poet had pauses at the end of each line, because it is like breaking up a sentence.
Emotive language Frost encapsulates the readers mind by using emotive language "But the hand! Half in appeal, but half as if to keep/ The life from spilling.”, elucidating the feeling of fear for the poor boy, "Doing a man's work"
Message The message of the poem as explained by the title, revealing a literary allusion towards the play Macbeth. Is that life is short or ‘brief’ and that one day you could be minding your own business and working hard, treating people with respect and such. And the next day you could be dead, suddenly without any warning.
Themes The main theme of the poem is that life is short and ‘brief’. And also that some people as said in the last line don’t care about other people affairs, they only care about themselves. “since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.”. These two themes bring together a notion that all is unfair in the world and like ‘the road not taken’, there is no easy options in life.
Imagery In almost every line of Out, Out, imagery is present. In the first line personification is used in, “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”, highlighting the vicious behavior of the buzz saw, as if to give it emotions. Again Frost personifies the saw, which seems to be a common theme throughout his poem, “the saw, As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap”, illustrating a frightful picture in our minds of the horrid saw leaping out of the boys hand and slicing his hand, clean off. Frost uses short sentences to highlight key words, “They listened to his heart. Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it.”, accentuating the last sounds of the boys heart beating, to never return. This is a key point in the poem because as Frost goes on to say. The doctors after he died, didn’t have a care in the world about his life that was just destroyed or his sisters.
Techniques Personification, imagery, sibilance, metaphor, repetition, dark imagery, short sentences, depressing tone.
Good stuff, Aaron. You've clearly understood the poem and you've obviously got its larger meaning.
I especially liked your work on the Imagery - see if you can replicate this kind of detail with Emotive Language, Themes and Message, in particular. They are just as important.
Using Tremmit as your spine, analyse in 500 words Robert Frost “Out Out”
Title /intro Robert Frost constructs a poem called “Out Out” which alludes, to a famous play called “Macbeth”. This is related to the poem as the character Macbeth realises that life can end like a candle being finished by a wind. As this happened when Macbeth lost his wife. Through the poem that Frost presents to us, the title shows that life is unpredictable with Happiness and sorrow. The poem shows a “boy doing a man’s work, though a child at heart” as how his “pule took fright”. This happened when the boy lost his hand in a saw when the Saw. Imagery and language technique helps the author extends our minds to perceive what the poet was thinking. “Out out” is a poem that portrays life unpredictability and explores the deep jungles of Frost perspective of this poem .
Rhyme Contrasting to Frost several other poems we can contrast that the poem “Out Out” does not have a Rhyming scheme. We can imply that Frost knew what the affect would be if he did not have a rhyme structure as, it reflects on the unpredictable moments of life. “Out out” is a poem that portrays life predictableness which explores it with language technique. “Little-Less-nothing and that ended it” shows the unpredictability of life as one second the boy was alive now then he was dead within second. Reflecting “on the one dead” we are shown how Rhyme contributes to the poets ability to convey such deep meaning through a simple technique.
Emotive language Frost ability to make simple techniques convey deep meaning is astonishing as he also does this with emotive language. Throughout the poem, Frost is fairly ambiguous with his word choices and syntax as he doesn’t show emotive language much. Emotions seem to spring in when the Saw “leapt out of the boy’s hand “as the boys first outcry was a rueful laugh”. The Rueful laugh is contrasted to the boy’s cries as this is juxtaposition. As a result of juxtaposition the poet can express his emotive languages. When the boy lost his hand “but the hand!”, also shows emotive language that gives of a tragic and sad feeling which is emphasised by the exclamation mark.
Message As the result of Emotive language the poet is able to present the message forward to us in a clearer detail. The poem message can be seen that lives have twist and turn that we cannot predict or determined. Contrasting to the “Sweet Scened stuff” and “sunset far from Verona” we are then thrown into the deep end where dark imagery appears as “the doctor puts him in the dark of the ether”. As shown through quotes we were just reflecting on the goodness of life till it ends with “little-less-nothing”. Through the quotes we can proves that life is unpredictable as the title highlights Out Out reflecting on the play "Macbeth”.
Theme • The young always dieing • Tradgey • Contrasting
Imagery • The use of “Five mountains range one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.” • Then contrasting to the death of a boy with juxtaposition • Most use of personification
Techniques • Personification, imagery, sibilance, metaphor, repetition, dark imagery, short sentences, juxtaposition, stoic, onomatopoeia
Tone • Starts of happy then it goes to sad and depressing • Give the reader a sense of what it is like
Sorry sir I could'nt really finish off the last few dot points for I had to go to a friends party, and it was compulsory. I will make up for it later this week.
Title The title of Frost’s poem “Out, out” is an allusion to William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (“out, out, brief candle…” in the Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy). Macbeth learns about his wife’s death and speaks about the shortness of life, how unpredictable and fragile life is.
Rhyme Structure There is no specific structure in this poem, however the whole poem is an extended metaphor to show that just like the unstructured, unorganized poem, life has no structure and that life has no guarantees. Although there is no structure in the poem, there are language techniques that are clear; for example, the use of personification when Frost describes the buzz saw to “snarl.” He also uses simple poetic techniques such as alliterations to give the poem a smoother rhythm, this is apparent in the third line of the poem, “sweet-scented stuff…” Frost does this to not only metaphorically present to the reader that life has no structure but he also keeps his poetic rhythm through these simple language techniques.
Emotive Language The emotion in Frost’s “Out, out” starts off quite pleasant as he describes the beautiful landscape of New England, “five mountain ranges one behind the other, under the sunset far into Vermont.” But as the poem progresses the atmosphere starts to feel more melancholy and ends in absolute misery when the little boy cuts off his arm. The most apparent example is when Frost uses simple pauses to cause an intense, heartbreaking mood when they listen to the child’s hear beat “little – less – nothing.”
Message Frost’s message in this poem is simply to not take life for granted and that life is fragile and every opportunity that is laid before us must be grasped with both hands…ohhh the irony ☺. Although Frost does not clearly state it in the poem, it is metaphorical; in it is an example of someone else’s life that has been taken so early and so tragically.
Themes The apparent theme of Frost’s poem is that life is short and to not be taken for granted. It’s also disappointing to see that Frost explains that people went on their normal lives and ignored what had happened; “since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.”
Imagery The only use of imagery that is clear in the poem is when Frost describes the landscape, “The use of “Five mountains range one behind the other.”
Techniques Seasonal Imagery, Nature Imagery, personification, third person, alliteration, descriptive language, haunting atmosphere with an unpleasant tone.
Title: Robert Frost took his poem’s title from an idea that dates all the way back to Macbeth written by William Shakespeare. “Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ” This quote taken from Macbeth is reflected in Frost’s poem by the fact the young boy’s life was that but a brief one and how he has not really done anything major in his life.
Rhyme Structure: This poem has been written in the form of a free verse structure. This form of unstructured written helps mirror the idea that life is not structured and like shown with the boy can be taken away in the blink of an eye. From the beautiful natural imagery in the first stanza, “Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunset far into Vermont.” Turning into the horror of a death, “They listened at his heart –Little – Less – Nothing.” This unstructured written is what turns the readers to feel for the boy throughout the poem.
Emotive Language: Frost describes how good life is with a sense of beauty and serenity, through imagery and emotional words “sweet-scented stuff” and giving a sense of beauty, “Five mountain ranges one behind the other. It is clear that the emotion in this Poem is happy until the accident happens and turns into a dark and sad feeling. “Call it a day, I wish the might have said.” Frost in the first person has changed his mood while remembering what happened starts to get into the sadder part of the poem.
Message: The main message of this poem is how unstructured life is, how although a boy who knows what he’s doing can still end up being killed in the blink of an eye. One moment being picture perfect and the next cutting his hand off and dying, this is the point Frost is trying to get across that it can happen to anyone.
Themes: The poem touches on the concepts of the unpredictability of the factors of life and death. He also, at the end of the poem, talks about happiness and sadness. Imagery: All-throughout this poem Frost use imagery to engage his audience in his poem. “under the sunset far into Vermont”. Frost also uses personification to give the saw life like characteristics which helps with how the audience takes it. “the saw rattle and snarled”, With the saw getting described with ‘snarled’ gives it an evil view towards the readers and after the boy dies, most readers will feel hatred towards the saw.
Techniques: Frost uses a range of language techniques such as Personification, Natural Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, syllabus, sensory imagery, first and third person writing techniques.
Gee, there are some very good sentences in here. I particularly liked your work on the title. If you can, go back and have a read of that section and see how those words and sentence structure would show a marker the gold you have to offer!
“Out, out” by Robert Frost, to the readers first thoughts are that the title means nothing or has no connection to the poem, Robert Frost has used ……. where in the play Macbeth, Macbeth is quoted “Out, out brief candle”. With Macbeth meaning that life is nothing up a candle waiting to be blown out by a gush of wind, Robert Frost has cleverly used this for the meaning and title of his poem. With the candle representing life and wind been death, this connection made it is now known what the meaning and purpose of the poem is based around the idea of. The poem is not based around a candle but rather a story that in the end has the same meaning of what Macbeth soliquey.
Rhyme Structure:
The rhyme structure of “Out, out” has no structure. With this thought through in Robert Frost poem in works in perfectly with the idea that life has no structure. With no rhyme structure it means to reader has no idea what rhyme will be spat out, with has the exact same meaning as what is written in the poem, Robert Frost wants to make to reader believe that there is no structure in life and at an time you can be candle can be blown out.
Emotive Langue:
In “Out, out” the poem reflects on the idea that at anytime your life can come to an end. With such use of words “Little - less - nothing!” this creates a dark setting on how the boys life ends when he’s hand is cut off working. There is also a contrast of what the mood is like when Robert Frost explains the landscape of the farm. “Five mountain ranges one behing the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” imagery this allows the reader to picture of how and what the landscape looks like. This is prefect for refection on life as want to the deeper meaning to Robert Frost poem is that at any time in life your candle can be blown out.
Message:
With the the deeper meaning behind Robert Frost poem been about life's unexpected endings. With the use of the title, rhyme structure and emotive langue it is no surprise that the poem has a deep and life changing meaning behind it. With life having no structure and having to potential to end at any given time. This poem has a deep reflection on what life's paths can been like and how some peoples life can end.
Themes:
Robert Roberts uses themes such as ambiguous and life's unexpected turns, these combine to make to poem perfect about the meaning about life's randomness.
Imagery:
WIth quoted expanding on the beauty of the land “Five mountain ranges one behing the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” it is thought to the reader that the land is a beauty part of America.
Techniques:
Third person, emotive langue, descriptive langue, imagery and nature imagery.
Good boy, Hugo. You've got a good understanding of Frost's poem and have got good ideas. We'll try and increase your vocabulary over the next 18 months and try to make some of your sentences sound more academic.
Out, out: Robert Frost
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The title Out, out refers back to the time of Macbeth when Macbeth quotes “ Out, out brief candle”. This reflects on life and how it can be unpredictable and you don’t know when it is Going to end. In the first paragraph of the poem they refer to the nature. “Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it”. The quote shows sibilance sweeting the smell of death of trees. Also explains to us that breathing, nature is alive.
Rhyme Structure:
There is no rhyme structure in Frost’s poem Out, out. With the poem having know structure its represents life in a way of being unpredictable with death becoming the main part in the poem. With the boy dying at the end of the poem the workers have to go back to work as if nothing happened so they can go and get on with their lives.
Emotive Language:
The emotion used in Frost’s poem Out, out is quite ambiguous with this one especially because it has know structure as I found it hard to understand. With understanding a bit about the poem I sense that there is unpredictability on what has happened to the boy. 'Don't let him cut my hand off the doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' The quote uses exclamatory language showing his urgency on how badly he doesn’t want the Doctor to cut his hand off.
Message
Frost’s message in this poem is showing the unpredictability of life. Frost refers this to Macbeth’s line “Out, out brief candle”. This shows that life can be fast and quick like a candle, gone within a blink of an eye. When things go wrong such as death there is a time when your sad and devote your time to what has just happened but also you have to go on with your own lives and not let it interfere with what you have going on.
Themes
The theme of Frost's poem is about the shortness of life and how death is unavoidable. The poem is about a boy that is killed to young in a tragic accident. With his death everyone is in the mind set that everyone will die someday which is true.
Imagery
Imagery used in the poem is when Frost mentions that the saw leaped out at the boy “Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap” the quote used here shows imagery by Frost saying the saw leaped out at him.
Techniques
Imagery, Sensory imagery, nature imagery, Personification, onomatapia, Sibilance, Exclamatory language.
You've blown me away, Charlie. There are some grammatical and spelling errors but you've done a really good job in analysing this poem. Brilliant.
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ReplyDeleteThe title for “out, out” comes from a scene at the end of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare when he says “out, out brief candle” because this is a literary illusion to life being so short and un expectable and brief and how anything can change in an instant
Rhythm structure
The rhythm of the poem is unusual and dose not follow the usual structure of a poem as it is an unstructured poem. but frost dose this on purpose as the unstructured nature of the poem reflects the main crux of what he is trying to get across in the poem, that being that life is uncertain and anything at any point in life can happen.
Emotive language
Frost uses sensory imagery to evoke the readers emotions by stirring emotions of happiness at the start by describing “Sweet-scented stuff” at the start then using personification to describe the spinning blade that cut the young boys hand off so by the end of the poem we develop a strong hate towards an inanimate object which without this use of language would normally be hard to develop
Message
The key message that frost tries to develop in the poem is that how unexpected and unpredictable that life can be.
Themes
The themes in the poem consist of life and death, unhappiness and fear. These all coincide with the message as they all promote the idea that he is trying to push towards the audience that is reading.
Imagery
Strong imagery is used in the poem to evoke the emotions of love, hate, beauty and misery. He describes the “ five mountain ranges one being the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” to help paint a picture of the beautiful mountains of Vermont which is a contradiction to the second half of the poem which is filled with sorrow, pain and death.
Techniques
Sensory imagery, emotive language, personification,
Tone
The overall tone of the poem has two halves, which was cleverly constructed by frost to pull at the readers emotions. A happy, peaceful tone is used at the start done by describing the wonderful mountains of Vermont, it then changes to one of desperation and sadness when talking about the death of the young boy. Frost purposefully dose this to reiterate the crux of the poem of life being un predictable and uncertain as the course of the poem dramatically changes from one happy tone to a sadder more depressed tone
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ReplyDeleteout out is actually a literary allusion, referring to the shakesperean play macbeth and more significantly the soliloquy spoken by macbeth after he wife dies, specifically the lines “out out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow” is actually a metaphor which shakespeare uses to describe the unpredictable and short nature of life, of how a candle which represents life is bright and beautiful but with a simple breeze can be blown “out out”, as does life represent a shadow and all shadows exist in light but at some point that light will go out and the “walking shadow” will no longer exist, similarly to life and how it all must come to an end
rhyme
there no rhyming structure to this poem thus meaning it is a free verse, which compliment the central idea of the poem of how life has no script and it is not laid out for us nor is it predictable you can never preempt what is going to happen next. just as the boy can not predetermine what would happen next, an unforeseeable outcome.
emotive language
the poem starts off with the explanation of the setting and the beauty of it “sweet scented stuff” using sibilance to emphasise this line and engaging our olfactory senses, the reader then gets a sense of serene working class life. but the poem turns to the emotions of mourning “call it a day, i wish they said” emotive language emphasises the mourning and gloom that the persona was feeling at the time of the accident prompting that the poem is a recount giving the poem a realistic effect of how shocking this incident was to the persona, that he will never forget this day and the actions that took place to the boy.
message
the message of the poem again referring to macbeths soliloquy “out out brief candle” life has an unscripted nature about it meaning that you cannot go on life as it is planned out for you, life is unpredictable and with this unpredictability life can be “brief” and we do not know can happen next. life can much like the fate of the boy can end so abruptly and suddenly.”since they were not the ones dead, they turned to their affairs” life can also be insignificant in the ongoings of the world, “turned to their affairs” these workmen after witnessing the death of this child return to work as if nothing happened, symbolising yes death does happen but over time the human race has become accustomed to the notion of death that the close deaths may affect us greatly, the other however mean very little to us.
themes
the recount of the boy, although it does start of peaceful ends in a tale of sorrow so rapidly within this poem in backs up the theme that life is so brief and it can change in an instant and us as people do not know when this is going to happen adding the theme that life is unscripted which compliment the briefness of life
imagery
there is imagery of the surrounding landscape “under the sunset far into vermont” presents the poem as stated before in a serene and beautiful environment, but his rapidly changes as frost does not give a us an gory explanation of the severed hand, he does describe the emotions of the boy. frost then goes on to give us an description of the boys death “little-less-nothing” with the hyphens in between the words the reader reads these words with a pause between them as to give the shrinking on the life inside the boy and how is slowly being laid to rest
techniques
frost uses a variety of techniques no explain the themes and messages within the poem, imagery to explain the landscape and the boys death, the title itself is an literary allusion he also uses vast amounts of emotive language, as well as the personification of the saw to emphasise the lethal and vicious nature of it
You've really got the hang of this, Lad. Well done. Great work.
DeleteTitle – The title “Out out” immediately shows to us that life is extremely short and so unpredictable. Shakespeare once said “out, out brief candle”. In this quote Shakespeare uses a metaphor to explain that life is like a candle. The relevance between life and a candle is that one blow of wind and the candle will blow out and one small accident like the buzz saw cutting the boys arm off ends his life instantly. Therefore this metaphor shows that life can be ended so quickly and instantly.
ReplyDeleteRhyme Structure – This poem ‘Out Out’ doesn’t have any real rhyme structure that is followed throughout the poem. The effect that Frost is trying to portray with not having a structure is showing that life is so unpredictable with many things but mainly death in this poem. With the boy dying towards the end of the poem, although the death is a major shock to the family they all still have to continue on with their lives. “Were not the dead one, turned to their affairs.”
Emotive language – The emotive language used in Frosts poem ‘Out out’ in some parts is very strong and powerful. The unpredictable structure of this poem also helps the emotive language be more powerful towards the reader. Towards the end of the poem when the boys hand has been cut off Frost uses emotive language to express the scared and worried nature he is in. “Don’t let him cut my hand off, The doctor, when he comes, don’t let him sister”. This quote uses emotive language to set the mood of the poem and show the fear the boy is facing.
Message – The main message that Frost is trying to get across in the poem is that life is so unpredictable and you will never know what is around the corner. He shows this in the poem with the small boys death, firstly he is just having some fun cutting the wood and then unexpectedly he is bleeding to death. This shows how unpredictable life can be. Frost is also stating that when tragedies like these happen in life although they are stuck in your mind, you have to keep moving on with life.
Themes – The themes of Frosts poem that he is trying to portray are happiness and misery. These themes relate back to the main message of the poem. The themes are used with happiness at the start saying how good life is with the dreamy like atmosphere “Under the sunset, far into Vermont”. Then suddenly moving into the theme of misery when the boy unfortunately dies from blood loss “little—less – nothing and that is ended”. This quote shows the sound of the heart beat as the boys heart begins to stop beating.
Imagery – The imagery that is used in this poem is mainly personification, this is what brings the buzz saw to life. Frost uses personification to reveal it as a demon “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”. This quote shows that using personification it makes the saw sound more intimidating and more human like towards the small boy.
Techniques – Personification, onomatopoeia, sibilance, repetition, sensory imagery, exclamatory language.
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Mmm...another intelligent (very intelligent, actually) analysis of a poem followed by a couple of hashtags that make you look like a moron. #youareafool
DeleteVery good work on the poem, I'm very happy with how you've got the idea of quote, technique, analysis.
Try to make sure you don't say, "this quotes shows that..." OR "this quote uses personification..." Just say what you want to say, otherwise it sounds a little unacademic and simple.
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Out Out
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Out Out is a literary allusion that refers to a line from the play Macbeth. Macbeth says “Out, out, brief candle” after his wife dies. Shakespeare and Frost both share the view that life is like a candle and if the wind blows your life can end like candle in the wind.
Rhyme Structure
There is no rhyme structure. The lack of rhyme accentuates the chaos in the poem which reminds the reader that much like the style of rhyme, there is no structure to ones life.
Emotive Language
The child screaming in first person?
Message
The message of Out Out is that life can be ended at anytime. Unlike the poem ‘The Road Not Taken,’ the reader is made to feel a sense of insecurity in their lives. This view contradicts the message in the poem ‘The road not taken’ where it makes the reader feel like he/she is in charge of their destiny.
Themes
The themes of unpredictability and death are resolute within this poem. Robert Frost plays with the theme of death to show that life is unpredictable.
Imagery
Visual imagery is used at the start of the poem to give the reader an idea of what the scenery is like. The visual imagery of the mountains and trees is then contrasted by the visual description of the buzz saw.
Techniques
Imagery, Nature Imagery, First Person, Ambiguous Tone, Emotive Language, Descriptive Language, personification, repetition and alliteration.
You're right in everything that you say - no doubt.
DeleteBut, you do need to get those quotes in - make them specific. This is what markers are after and will result in FAR better marks.
The Poem, “Out, Out!” By Robert Frost.
ReplyDeleteThe Title, “Out, Out!” is an indirect reference to the play, ‘Macbeth’ where, Macbeth, the King, quotes: “Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.” This Quote symbolizes the briefness of life, once alive, can be snuffed out in a second’s will, exactly like a candle.
Rhythm Structure
“Out, Out” Does not have a rhythmic structure, but a scrambled, unarranged structure. This technique is symbolic to the fact that life is a scramble, unarranged and uncertain. There is no identifiable poem structure.
Emoting Structure
There are some emotive structures in the poem:
“Sweet scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.” As the young boy cuts the wood, sweet smelling scent is released.
“And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled.” The deliberate repeat emphasizes the ferocity of the saw.
Message
The message portrayed in this poem.
I think that the message portrayed in this poem is that life can change in the blink of an eye. “To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap -
He must have given the hand.” His says, “Supper”, indicating the end of the day, but at that second, the saw gets out of hand, and saws his hand off. He eventually dies from his hand getting sawed off.
Themes
The Robert Frost feels uncertain of life and the negativities of life.
Techniques
Juxtaposition: The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh. If your rueful, you do not laugh.
Stotic: Life can change in a blink of an eye.
No Chain of thought: No train of thought, no order in life.
Tones:
The tone of the poem is very negative, depressing. It starts off with the resolution; the end of the day, with supper. Then dramatically decreases to the death of a boy.
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You've got good ideas - just to be more specific with them. Take your time when you write. Don't be afraid to write less (although you need to achieve word limits) as long as what you write makes sense.
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The title ‘Out Out’ doesn’t directly state what the poem is about or anything about the little boy’s tragic accident. This gives us a feeling of suspense. The fact that we don’t know what we are exactly going to read in the poem relates to the theme of unpredictability and not knowing what we are going to come across. The term ‘Out Out’ can be seen as a literary allusion to the soliloquy found in Macbeth. Macbeth states that
“Out, out, brief candle!”. This suggests that life is similar to a light on candle and
once the light is blown out, its all over. Similarly when the little boy’s hand was
decapitated, it happened so quick and his life was over like the light that can be
blown out by the wind.
Rhythm and Structure:
‘Out Out’ is a free verse poem that is formed in a way that it is very unstructured unlike most poems you would find to be structured in a way that they are split up into equal stanzas. The fact that the poem is unstructured tells us something about the poem. Just like the poem talks about how life is unpredictable and it can be unstructured. When we as the responder reads a well structured poem, we can almost predict the tone, pauses and the timing of each verse, that is not the case with ‘Out Out’. As this poem is unstructured, we can not make out the general rhythm of so we can say that the poem is structured in an unpredictable way. The structure and unpredictability of the poem relates very well to the concept of the poem which is that life is unpredictable and can be unstructured.
Emotive Language:
The poem starts with describing some of the beautiful aspects of the atmosphere “Sweet Scented stuff” using sibilance. Our olfactory senses become engaged by this sibilance, not only does Frost use the visual appearences of things to emphasise beauty but also the senses of smell.
The use of emotive language is used very effectively in the scene of the boy’s last moments of life as he suffers the fright “Please Don’t let him cut my hand off— The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!”.
The words of the boy give off an emotional feeling of tragedy and sadness.
Message:
The message of the poem is that life is very much unpredictable and life can be cruel even when the sweetest and innocent soul has to experience the brutality as experienced by the boy’s sister “His sister stood beside him in her apron To tell them ‘Supper.”
Themes:
The themes included in this poem are placed throughout the introduction in a very juxtaposed way. The poem is started as very harsh and sharp, already we respond to a theme of unpleasantness “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard.”
In the third line a theme of beauty and sweetness is created with the scene of nature.
When we get from the introductory themes to the scene where the boy has the accident, we notice a theme of regret as if the persona is reflecting back on the idea of ‘what if’ and what he wishes could had happened when he says “Call it a day, I wish they might have said”.
After the accident we enter a theme of depression and tragedy. The theme of suffering is shown when the boy exclaims “Don’t let him cut my hand off”
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In the beginning frost uses a lot of imagery in the poem. The image of beauty of landscape nature is then followed by a harsh and unpleasant imagery of the buzz saw and how it “Snarled and rattled in the yard”. As we repeat the words describing the buzz saw in our mind, we can notice how they are very sharp words to say and they don’t flow through as much. This effect of sharpness prints a negative image about the scene Frost is describing.
Techniques:
The use of many techniques are found in “Out Out”. In the beginning, Frost describes the image of the buzz saw working in the yard, he personifies the buzz saw by giving it a character of the human personality by stating that it “snarled…”. Giving the buzz saw the personality of human nature does 2 things, one, it emphasizes the importance of its role in the poem and it makes it so that we as people can relate to such things.
The repetition of the phrase “Rattled and snarled” is used throughout the poem till the moment of the accident to build up the negative mood and emotions within us, also it becomes as a foreshadowing term for the accident.
At the moment of the accident, Frost again personifies the buzz saw as the buzz saw “Leaped out at the boy’s hand”. This personification allows is to imagine what the scene looked like as the poet has given the buzz saw human characteristics.
In the poem, Frost refrains from giving a name to ‘the boy’ even though he is the main focus of the text. Infact, no characters of the poem have been named or given a name or a personality of some sort, the poet has done this so that the responders can keep their focus more towards the emotions given off by the characters instead of us judging their personalities. The poet has also limited the amount of dialogue used by the characters again so we can focus towards the emotions and not the personalities. This simplistic characterization instantly makes us believe that they characters are innocent and do not deserve to have such emotions inflicted towards them.
When we are experiencing the final seconds of the boy’s life, the poet doesn’t directly state that the boy died. He implies death by describing the beats of the boys heart “Litte – Less – Nothing”, Frost uses pauses so the rhythm of the line becomes slow as if the boys life is fading out and at that point, we assume that the boy’s life has ended. The soft tone of the last few lines relieve the intensity built up in the previous lines before the death of the boy. (sorry i went a little over 500 words)
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DeleteYou've not only really dissected the heart of the poem, you've got a wonderful expression in your writing. Impressive stuff.
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Using TREMTITT as your 'spine', analyse in 500 words Robert Frost's 'Out, Out'.
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Frost used the title “Out, Out” to show the literary allusion to the soliloquy in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, which reads "Out, out, brief candle!” Frost had used the idea of the ‘candle’ symbolising life and how quickly a candle can just be blown out like in how life can be gone in just a snap.
Rhyme Structure
Robert Frost manages to structure the poem by using a free verse which has no rhyming structure as life is not structured
Emotive Language
In the opening stanza, Frost reveals us with a sibilance on the third line with “Sweet-scented stuff” meaning sweetening the smell of dead trees which is pretty much indicating it’s a new morning. During the poem, Frost turns it completely around as the boy’s hand gets chopped off
Message
The message behind the poem is that we live in a ‘cruel world’ and we can never expect anything to happen. The actions of the tragedy was not by decision but it couldn’t be avoided.
Theme
The themes Frost was trying to get the readers is to create an atmosphere of depression how we can start off “under the sunset” and end tragically with a life lost instantaneously.
Imagery
Frost manages to start an image of the natural landscape and is ended with a dark and horrid imagery of the saw and how it “snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled” noticing how Frost used saw in our mind. This impact of alertness describes a depressing atmosphere with the words “Little—less—nothing!” with the hyphens in between the words sets the mood instantly giving it a pause and the drama and tension that went through.
Techniques
Imagery, Repetition, First Person, Emotive Language, Personification, Sibilance
Ooh...you've got a very good way with words too!
DeleteJustin, well done. There are a few clumsy little expressions that have crept in BUT you've understood the poem and analysed it soundly.
Goody goody.
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ReplyDeleteFrost allude to the literary allusion of the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Presenting that life is very unfortunate can could end anytime, just like a brief candle, does not last forever. By calling the poem out out, Frost agree with Shakespeare of life is short and unexpected. A candle start off with a whole one that work its way down until it reaches the bottom. However, during that the candle can also be blow out in a second.
Rhyme structure/Tone:
The poem is read in two different tone that fills the mood of the poem. The poem starts off with a steady rhyme which suit the description of the section such as “Sweet - scented stuff when the breeze drew across it”. However, about half way through the poem the mood, rhyme and tone changes into a sorry and despair feeling.
Emotive Language:
Frost uses emotive language to express different aspect of the poem. Such as the environment, the mood and character. As the day start off with “As it ran light, or had to bear a load”. Presenting it is just a normal day at the work shop. When suddenly, “Neither refused the meeting. But the hand! The boys first outcry was a rueful laugh”. The boys has let out a laugh, but that laugh was a rueful one which mean that it is a awful cried.
Message:
The message that Frost is trying to get across is that life is unexpected and anything could happen anytime. Some of the thing where you just wish it never happened. As shown in “Call it a day, I wish they might have said”. That some path shouldn’t be touch but we can’t change the future.
Theme:
The main theme of this poem covers the sense of unexpected life and instant death. Referring to the life span of a candle.
Imagery:
Frost uses different imagery such as llusive imagery to express many event in the poem. Such as when “As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant”. Giving the saw personification of understanding humans words and the ironic of supper - blood. Could symbolise of ‘supper’ for the saw.
Technique:
Personification, onomatopoeia, sibilance, repetition, sensory imagery, exclamatory language.
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DeleteThere are some errors with some of the techniques - check what you've written about Imagery - and some spelling and grammar BUT I've been very proud of what you've done so far.
Great stuff.
Out out
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Title
“Out Out”, the title in combination with the poem is very up front in the way it suggests how life is not a secure thing, and how it can be gone in an instant. Out , out was originally in a Shakespearian play “Out, out brief candle”, even in this play it is used to describe the unpredictably of life. How a candle is burning bright and with a slight breeze in no chance be extinguished.
Rhyme struture
The poem what made in the free lance style for a reason, and is connected to the title and message of poem, how life is unpredictable, variable or unstructured. Frost takes a very absurdist stance in the way that he writes his poem as see in many times through out, “when he comes. Don't let him, sister!”, “the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart.”. Frost is a skilled poet and that is what confirms that he has done it for a reason.
Emotive language
The way in which frost describes the goodness in life and rushes into the harsh details of the boys death is very emotive. “sweet scented stuff”, and “The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.”, this use of the positive language at the beginning puts emphises on the boys death at the end. “And they, since the Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” This at the end of the poem forces more emotion as it shows a lack care for the boy, because the others aren’t died they don’t care.
Message
The central message of the poem is that life is similar to the fate of the boy and can end unexpectedly and suddenly. “since they were not the ones dead, they turned to their affairs” showing how insignificant life is, as the people carry on with there work, “turned to their affairs”. As a result of life being so unexpected and like a candle flame, gone with just a breeze, the human life is rightly so, depicted as fragile and minor compared to bigger things.
Themes
This poem touches on the concepts of life and death the unpredictability of human life, happiness and sadness. These are all displayed in the form of a story where a young boy dies as a result of chopping his hand off with a saw and bleeding to death.
Imagery
Large amounts of imagery is used at the start of poem to detail the landscape, “under the sunset far into Vermont”, at the start of the poem this beautiful imagery creates a high in the poem, giving the reader a fails sense of where the story is going. Frost them uses imagery in many places ofter that using it to describe the saw “the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled”, in this instance making the saw, an inadamit object, seem as if it wants to kill the boy. “They listened at his heart. Little -- less -- nothing!”, Imagery is again used here where the life is see as slowly leaving the boy body.
Techniques
Frost uses many techniques to help express the themes and central conepts within the poem, to show to beauty of the landscape and the boys intimate death, the title itself is an literary allusion he also uses vast amounts of emotive language, as well as the personification of the saw.
Just brilliant - you've got exactly what I wanted you to do.
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The title Out, Out directly relates to Shakespeare's play Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth kills herself, Macbeth realises that life is short and says "out, out brief candle", which is a literary allusion to Frost's poem.
Rhyme Structure
The structure for Out, Out in Frost's poem is free verse, which keeps a flowing feel to the poem. At the end of each line there is no full stop or coma as such, but the poem continues onto the next line and it wouldn't have made sense if the poet had pauses at the end of each line, because it is like breaking up a sentence.
Emotive language
Frost encapsulates the readers mind by using emotive language "But the hand!
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep/
The life from spilling.”, elucidating the feeling of fear for the poor boy, "Doing a man's work"
Message
The message of the poem as explained by the title, revealing a literary allusion towards the play Macbeth. Is that life is short or ‘brief’ and that one day you could be minding your own business and working hard, treating people with respect and such. And the next day you could be dead, suddenly without any warning.
Themes
The main theme of the poem is that life is short and ‘brief’. And also that some people as said in the last line don’t care about other people affairs, they only care about themselves. “since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.”. These two themes bring together a notion that all is unfair in the world and like ‘the road not taken’, there is no easy options in life.
Imagery
In almost every line of Out, Out, imagery is present. In the first line personification is used in, “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard”, highlighting the vicious behavior of the buzz saw, as if to give it emotions. Again Frost personifies the saw, which seems to be a common theme throughout his poem, “the saw,
As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap”, illustrating a frightful picture in our minds of the horrid saw leaping out of the boys hand and slicing his hand, clean off.
Frost uses short sentences to highlight key words, “They listened to his heart.
Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it.”, accentuating the last sounds of the boys heart beating, to never return. This is a key point in the poem because as Frost goes on to say. The doctors after he died, didn’t have a care in the world about his life that was just destroyed or his sisters.
Techniques
Personification, imagery, sibilance, metaphor, repetition, dark imagery, short sentences, depressing tone.
Good stuff, Aaron. You've clearly understood the poem and you've obviously got its larger meaning.
DeleteI especially liked your work on the Imagery - see if you can replicate this kind of detail with Emotive Language, Themes and Message, in particular. They are just as important.
Well done.
Using Tremmit as your spine, analyse in 500 words Robert Frost “Out Out”
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Robert Frost constructs a poem called “Out Out” which alludes, to a famous play called “Macbeth”. This is related to the poem as the character Macbeth realises that life can end like a candle being finished by a wind. As this happened when Macbeth lost his wife. Through the poem that Frost presents to us, the title shows that life is unpredictable with Happiness and sorrow. The poem shows a “boy doing a man’s work, though a child at heart” as how his “pule took fright”. This happened when the boy lost his hand in a saw when the Saw. Imagery and language technique helps the author extends our minds to perceive what the poet was thinking. “Out out” is a poem that portrays life unpredictability and explores the deep jungles of Frost perspective of this poem .
Rhyme
Contrasting to Frost several other poems we can contrast that the poem “Out Out” does not have a Rhyming scheme. We can imply that Frost knew what the affect would be if he did not have a rhyme structure as, it reflects on the unpredictable moments of life. “Out out” is a poem that portrays life predictableness which explores it with language technique. “Little-Less-nothing and that ended it” shows the unpredictability of life as one second the boy was alive now then he was dead within second. Reflecting “on the one dead” we are shown how Rhyme contributes to the poets ability to convey such deep meaning through a simple technique.
Emotive language
Frost ability to make simple techniques convey deep meaning is astonishing as he also does this with emotive language. Throughout the poem, Frost is fairly ambiguous with his word choices and syntax as he doesn’t show emotive language much. Emotions seem to spring in when the Saw “leapt out of the boy’s hand “as the boys first outcry was a rueful laugh”. The Rueful laugh is contrasted to the boy’s cries as this is juxtaposition. As a result of juxtaposition the poet can express his emotive languages. When the boy lost his hand “but the hand!”, also shows emotive language that gives of a tragic and sad feeling which is emphasised by the exclamation mark.
Message
As the result of Emotive language the poet is able to present the message forward to us in a clearer detail. The poem message can be seen that lives have twist and turn that we cannot predict or determined. Contrasting to the “Sweet Scened stuff” and “sunset far from Verona” we are then thrown into the deep end where dark imagery appears as “the doctor puts him in the dark of the ether”. As shown through quotes we were just reflecting on the goodness of life till it ends with “little-less-nothing”. Through the quotes we can proves that life is unpredictable as the title highlights Out Out reflecting on the play "Macbeth”.
Theme
• The young always dieing
• Tradgey
• Contrasting
Imagery
• The use of “Five mountains range one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.”
• Then contrasting to the death of a boy with juxtaposition
• Most use of personification
Techniques
• Personification, imagery, sibilance, metaphor, repetition, dark imagery, short sentences, juxtaposition, stoic, onomatopoeia
Tone
• Starts of happy then it goes to sad and depressing
• Give the reader a sense of what it is like
Sorry sir I could'nt really finish off the last few dot points for I had to go to a friends party, and it was compulsory. I will make up for it later this week.
Where was my invite to this party? I am a party animal.
DeleteAlex, never apologise to me - especially after submitting work of this level.
You've got it champ. Really tops.
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ReplyDeleteThe title of Frost’s poem “Out, out” is an allusion to William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (“out, out, brief candle…” in the Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy). Macbeth learns about his wife’s death and speaks about the shortness of life, how unpredictable and fragile life is.
Rhyme Structure
There is no specific structure in this poem, however the whole poem is an extended metaphor to show that just like the unstructured, unorganized poem, life has no structure and that life has no guarantees. Although there is no structure in the poem, there are language techniques that are clear; for example, the use of personification when Frost describes the buzz saw to “snarl.” He also uses simple poetic techniques such as alliterations to give the poem a smoother rhythm, this is apparent in the third line of the poem, “sweet-scented stuff…” Frost does this to not only metaphorically present to the reader that life has no structure but he also keeps his poetic rhythm through these simple language techniques.
Emotive Language
The emotion in Frost’s “Out, out” starts off quite pleasant as he describes the beautiful landscape of New England, “five mountain ranges one behind the other, under the sunset far into Vermont.” But as the poem progresses the atmosphere starts to feel more melancholy and ends in absolute misery when the little boy cuts off his arm. The most apparent example is when Frost uses simple pauses to cause an intense, heartbreaking mood when they listen to the child’s hear beat “little – less – nothing.”
Message
Frost’s message in this poem is simply to not take life for granted and that life is fragile and every opportunity that is laid before us must be grasped with both hands…ohhh the irony ☺. Although Frost does not clearly state it in the poem, it is metaphorical; in it is an example of someone else’s life that has been taken so early and so tragically.
Themes
The apparent theme of Frost’s poem is that life is short and to not be taken for granted. It’s also disappointing to see that Frost explains that people went on their normal lives and ignored what had happened; “since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.”
Imagery
The only use of imagery that is clear in the poem is when Frost describes the landscape, “The use of “Five mountains range one behind the other.”
Techniques
Seasonal Imagery, Nature Imagery, personification, third person, alliteration, descriptive language, haunting atmosphere with an unpleasant tone.
There are some really good examples of analysis in here, Toner, well played champ.
DeleteWe'll need a bit more detail in some of the parts but you're off to a good start!
Well done.
Out Out by Robert Frost
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Robert Frost took his poem’s title from an idea that dates all the way back to Macbeth written by William Shakespeare. “Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ” This quote taken from Macbeth is reflected in Frost’s poem by the fact the young boy’s life was that but a brief one and how he has not really done anything major in his life.
Rhyme Structure:
This poem has been written in the form of a free verse structure. This form of unstructured written helps mirror the idea that life is not structured and like shown with the boy can be taken away in the blink of an eye. From the beautiful natural imagery in the first stanza, “Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.” Turning into the horror of a death, “They listened at his heart –Little – Less – Nothing.” This unstructured written is what turns the readers to feel for the boy throughout the poem.
Emotive Language:
Frost describes how good life is with a sense of beauty and serenity, through imagery and emotional words “sweet-scented stuff” and giving a sense of beauty, “Five mountain ranges one behind the other. It is clear that the emotion in this Poem is happy until the accident happens and turns into a dark and sad feeling. “Call it a day, I wish the might have said.” Frost in the first person has changed his mood while remembering what happened starts to get into the sadder part of the poem.
Message:
The main message of this poem is how unstructured life is, how although a boy who knows what he’s doing can still end up being killed in the blink of an eye. One moment being picture perfect and the next cutting his hand off and dying, this is the point Frost is trying to get across that it can happen to anyone.
Themes:
The poem touches on the concepts of the unpredictability of the factors of life and death. He also, at the end of the poem, talks about happiness and sadness.
Imagery:
All-throughout this poem Frost use imagery to engage his audience in his poem. “under the sunset far into Vermont”. Frost also uses personification to give the saw life like characteristics which helps with how the audience takes it. “the saw rattle and snarled”, With the saw getting described with ‘snarled’ gives it an evil view towards the readers and after the boy dies, most readers will feel hatred towards the saw.
Techniques:
Frost uses a range of language techniques such as Personification, Natural Imagery, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, syllabus, sensory imagery, first and third person writing techniques.
Gee, there are some very good sentences in here. I particularly liked your work on the title. If you can, go back and have a read of that section and see how those words and sentence structure would show a marker the gold you have to offer!
DeleteGood lad.
Title:
ReplyDelete“Out, out” by Robert Frost, to the readers first thoughts are that the title means nothing or has no connection to the poem, Robert Frost has used ……. where in the play Macbeth, Macbeth is quoted “Out, out brief candle”. With Macbeth meaning that life is nothing up a candle waiting to be blown out by a gush of wind, Robert Frost has cleverly used this for the meaning and title of his poem. With the candle representing life and wind been death, this connection made it is now known what the meaning and purpose of the poem is based around the idea of. The poem is not based around a candle but rather a story that in the end has the same meaning of what Macbeth soliquey.
Rhyme Structure:
The rhyme structure of “Out, out” has no structure. With this thought through in Robert Frost poem in works in perfectly with the idea that life has no structure. With no rhyme structure it means to reader has no idea what rhyme will be spat out, with has the exact same meaning as what is written in the poem, Robert Frost wants to make to reader believe that there is no structure in life and at an time you can be candle can be blown out.
Emotive Langue:
In “Out, out” the poem reflects on the idea that at anytime your life can come to an end. With such use of words “Little - less - nothing!” this creates a dark setting on how the boys life ends when he’s hand is cut off working. There is also a contrast of what the mood is like when Robert Frost explains the landscape of the farm. “Five mountain ranges one behing the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” imagery this allows the reader to picture of how and what the landscape looks like. This is prefect for refection on life as want to the deeper meaning to Robert Frost poem is that at any time in life your candle can be blown out.
Message:
With the the deeper meaning behind Robert Frost poem been about life's unexpected endings. With the use of the title, rhyme structure and emotive langue it is no surprise that the poem has a deep and life changing meaning behind it. With life having no structure and having to potential to end at any given time. This poem has a deep reflection on what life's paths can been like and how some peoples life can end.
Themes:
Robert Roberts uses themes such as ambiguous and life's unexpected turns, these combine to make to poem perfect about the meaning about life's randomness.
Imagery:
WIth quoted expanding on the beauty of the land “Five mountain ranges one behing the other Under the sunset far into Vermont” it is thought to the reader that the land is a beauty part of America.
Techniques:
Third person, emotive langue, descriptive langue, imagery and nature imagery.
Good boy, Hugo. You've got a good understanding of Frost's poem and have got good ideas. We'll try and increase your vocabulary over the next 18 months and try to make some of your sentences sound more academic.
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