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Description
Mind Map by catherine shiels, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by catherine shiels
over 11 years ago
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Robert Frost- "Out-Out"
- Content
- Narrative poem
describing the tragic
death or a farm boy
- He was sawing a log when he
got distracted & the saw
severed his h and.
- His sister witnessed
the accident.
- He died as a result of
shock and loss of
blood
- Narrative poem
describing the tragic
death or a farm boy
- Context
- Inspiration taken from a
newspaper report about a young
boy killed in a farm accident
- Reported in March 1920
- Narrative account
spoken by narrator
- Title taken from
Macbeth
- Inspiration taken from a
newspaper report about a young
boy killed in a farm accident
- Themes
- Harsh
realities of
rural labour
- Pressures on
children doing adult
work
- Hard-headed
approach to rural
work doesn't
account for youth
- Attitude of
rural folk to
death
- Some people
treat human life
as insignificant
- The
shortness of
Life
- Rural folk
oblivious to the
beauty of nature
surrounding them
- Ambivalent view
of nature
- Harsh
realities of
rural labour
- Form & Structure
- Narrative account
- one verse paragraph
- poem doesnt rhyme
- Narrative account
- Rhythm
- Regular rhythm
at first (4 beats)
- Rhythm shifts in line 7
to resemble the sound
of the saw
- Frequent use of caesura
give the feel of natural
speech
- Frost deliberately
spoiled the rhythm
with his
punctuation
- towards the end the
rhythm is shattered
like the boy's life
- Broken rhythm imitates the
wayward/wild pulse and
fading life of the dying boy
- Shortness of his life is
indicated by the short
"So"
- Regular rhythm
at first (4 beats)
- Language & Imagery
- "The buzz
saw snarled
and rattled in
the yard"
- Threatening
nature of the
saw
conveyed in
"snarled" &
"rattled"
- Personification-
comparable to a
savage animal
- Onomatopoeia -
sounds imitate the
sound of a sawing
machine
- Threatening
nature of the
saw
conveyed in
"snarled" &
"rattled"
- "sweet
scented
stuff. . ."
- Sibilance -
conveys an
aural image of
the scented
breeze
- Sibilance -
conveys an
aural image of
the scented
breeze
- "...those
that lifted
their eyes"
- suggests that
farmers rarely took
the time to
appreciate nature -
a tension in his role
as a farmer & poet
- suggests that
farmers rarely took
the time to
appreciate nature -
a tension in his role
as a farmer & poet
- Repetition
of
"snarled"
& "rattled"
- recreates the
repetitive
sawing
action/sound of
the saw
- emphasises
savage
nature of the
saw
- Saw
represents
how man
uses
modern
technology
to control
and
obliterate
nature
- recreates the
repetitive
sawing
action/sound of
the saw
- "The buzz
saw snarled
and rattled in
the yard"
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