Out Out Flashcards
Context on Robert Frost
Poor father and mother died
Moved to U.K. but had to go back to us due to WW1
Depressed
Children committed suicide
Highly realistic depictions of rural life
What happens
Boy cutting wood
Sister announces dinner is ready
Saw cuts his hand of
Begs his sister to not let the amputate it
Everyone goes back to normal as his death
How does frost use personification
Greater impact on events
Buzz saw is technically inanimate and is described as cognisant being aggressively, snarling and rattling as it works
The saw demonstrates having a mind of its own when announced dinner by leaping out the hand in excitement
Who does frost blame the injury on
Refuses to lame it on the boy
Blames it on the saw and the adults for not intervening and telling the boy to rest before the incident had occurred
What event does this poem link to
WW1
Emphasise on the boys innocence and passivity is significant as young boys were killed during war
Can be read as a critique for world events forced boys to leave their childhood behind
Even though he is still a child what does he realise
Realise he has lost to much blood to survive but he hopes to retain physical dignity rather than die with a missing hand
What happened too the narrator by the end
Last lines are detached and emotionless compare to the rest of the poems with elegant metaphors and descriptions of the scene
Unable to explain why the boy died
Almost as if the indifference is the only way to cope with the death
Soldiers on the battlefield had to deal with bodies
Quote to describe the saw
“Saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled”
Quote foreshadowing what’s to come
“Call it a day, I wish they might have said “
Quote showing the blood
“Keep the life spilling out “
Quote showing the saw jump up
“Or seemed to leap”
Quote showing he is young
“A child at heart”
Quote showing his death
“Little-less-nothing!”
Quote showing his hand is gone
“But the hand!”
