OUT, OUT- ROBERT FROST

Question 1

introduction
what type of poem:
what themes are present:
set in:
effect:

Answer 1

narrrative
death, child labour and fragility
farm , rural landscape
intrigues and puzzles

Question 2

immediate foregroud and distant background

Answer 2

contrast: between the buzz saw and the mountain ranges
industry vs nature
contrast
juxtaposed elements add tension

Question 3

buzz saw:

smarled and rattled

Answer 3

personified: foreshadows something terrible is going to happen
repetition: to emphasise the charecter of the saw

Question 4

the speakers stance:

Answer 4

contrasting: compassionate in the beginning(“call it a day, i wish they might have said”)
but changes to cold indifference

Question 5

turning point

Answer 5

when the sister announces supper

Question 6

the acute use of caesura in the description of the saw cutting the boy’s hand

Answer 6

makes the reader pause, a result of the work stopping.

Question 7

the boy’s rueful laugh

Answer 7

creates pity

Question 8

neither refused the meeting

Answer 8

suggests that the boy knows.he is at a transactional point between a boy and a man.
not physically strong enough to withstand the shock but grown up enough to understand the dire circumstances he’s in
.metaphorically a transactional point between life and death

Question 9

so.

Answer 9

single word paragraph:makes the reader take a deep pause.as if to sum up the entire gravity of the situation.

Question 10

no more to build on there

Answer 10

suggests that the boy’s death was meaningless and since the other people were not the one dead turned towards their affairs. shift in the narrator’s stance.

Question 11

“out , out”

Answer 11

alluded to shakesphere’s macbeth:out, out brief candle!

suggests that how life is so short.the reader realizes the need for the title only after he comes to the end