Out, out (Paper 2)

Question 1

Ideas

Answer 1

The poem published in 1916) is about a boy who has an accident in the woods. He accidentally cuts his hand and he begins to fear for his life. He does not want the hand to be removed. He eventually loses his life to the incident.

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

Robert Frost was an American poet, who was born on 26th March 1874. He grew up in San Francisco, but moved to Massachusetts after his father died of tuberculosis. Frost was inspired by many of the English poets, after going to England. He died in 1963. Frost understood New England, where the poem is set, as his grandfather had a farm there.

Question 3

Key quotations

Answer 3

• And nothing happened: day was all but done
• Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunse far into Vermont
• Then the boy saw all
• Little-less-nothing!

Question 4

And nothing happened: day was all but done (analysis)

Answer 4

Mundane life- false sense of security-link to repeated “and”

Question 5

Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunse far into Vermont (analysis)

Answer 5

Tranquil setting juxtaposes with aggressive buzz saw

Question 6

Then the boy saw all (analysis)

Answer 6

Monosyllabic- blunt truth- loss of innocence

Question 7

Little-less-nothing! (analysis)

Answer 7

Diction and dashes mirror quickness of life leaving

Question 8

Full stop repeatedly used at the end of verses (analysis)

Answer 8

Caesuras and end- stopeed lines- sense of finality