Out and out Robert Frost, Out and Out- This is a poem about a young boy who using a buzz saw who becomes distracted with the thought of dinner and cuts his hand. Later when the doctor arives, the boy slowly dies. The buz-saw snarling and rattling in the yard is the sound the saw makes when the boy is cutting what im assuming is a blossoming tree. Also note the words snarling and rattling …showed first 75 words of 478 total…

…showed last 75 words of 478 total…on the freeway… a very “shit happens” type attitude and emotionless tone. This is very disturbing to me. I found a few metaphors that were used to describe the accident: “But half as if to keep the life from spilling.” The poet is using this phrase instead of saying “To stop himself from bleeding to death.” The metaphor of blood being the boy’s life, which is ultimately how the boy died, bleeding to death.