Out, Out

Questions from pg 495 1. How does Frost make the buzz-saw appear sinister? How does he make it seem, in another way, like a fighter? a. The first line, The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard and the seventh line And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled both emit a sense of darkness, as if having a personality of its own. b. When the sister came out and told the brother that supper was ready and the saw looked as if it leaped out of the boys hand, it seemed as if the saw was a friend of the boy that did not want to be abandoned, so it pulled away from the boy in anger, causing injury to the boy.The saw and the boy were in essence friends because of the condemnation they spent together sawing firewood, and when faced with the boy leaving was upset. 2. What do you make of the people who surround the boythe they of the numbers. Who might they be? Do they seem to you concerned and compassionate, cruel, indifferent, or what? a. The they of the metrical composition ap pear to be his family, possibly his uncles, aunts, or cousins. They could be neighborhood friends of the boys. b.Whoever they were, they did not seem to be very concerned that the boy was injured, permit alone dead. They seemed uncompassionate and unconcerned about what they had witnessed. 3. What does Frosts reverence to Macbeth contribute to your understanding of Out, Out ? How would you state the theme of Frosts poem? a. It seems to me that Macbeths verse is about how short life is, that life is just a shadow, a player, in the game of life, that walks around on a stage, thusly one day is over.Frost uses part of the first line of Macbeths verse Out, out as his title as a way to agree with and indite Macbeth as one of his role models in poetry. b. I feel that Frost uses the theme life and death as the main concept of Out, out. 4. Set this poem side by side with Sir Patrick Spence. How does Out, Out resemble that medieval folk ballad in the subject, or does it differ from it ? How is Frosts poem connatural or different in its way of telling a story? a. To me, the common thread of the two poems is life and eath. Day to day, you live your life, never cognize when your last day on earth will be, and when it comes, it is sudden. b. I think they are both similar it its way of telling a story in the sense that you got pulled into the poem, hanging on its every word. Both poems begin with telling the readers what the characters were doing and continue in detail about what happens. Though short, Frost succeeded at his readers gaining an appurtenance to the day in the life of his character.