"Out, Out"

“Out, Out”-
• Read it through-Done
• Define any words you don’t know-Done
o Rueful- Expressing sorrow or regret especially in a slightly humorous way.
o Ether- The Clear Sky
• Identify the speaker
o The Speaker is a narrator someone who was present but was not any of the characters who where mentioned.
• Identify the situation
o What’s happening
• A young boy is cutting some sort of wood to build or repair something, with a buzz saw and all of a sudden the saw gave some kick back, as if trying to grab the boys hand.
o When is this happening
• Sometime during the day.
o Where is this happening
• In Vermont at their home.
• Identify the tone of the poem
o How the poem makes you feel
• Right at the first line of the poem it gives you the sense that this poem will be very harsh or sad.
o The Speaker and how or what he gives to you.
• He gives me sadness, the reader, since I am reading about a young boy who’s hand was torn off by a buzz saw.
• Identify important words or phrases
o “The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard.”
o “…Supper. At the word, the saw, As if to prove saws knew what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy’s hand…”
• Breakdown the words
o Musicality- sound- feeling
• Snarled-Onemoniapeia
• Leaped
• Spoiled
• “Little-Less-Nothing”
o Denotation- definition(s)
o Connotation- what the word implies
• Leaped-Jumped up at-
• Snarled made a growling noise
• Name the theme of the poem
• The Theme is the uncertainty and the unforeseeable results of life, it could end at any moment, just by some small accident such as this buzz-saw accident.
o NOT THE MORALE
o Usually implied in the poem
• The purpose of the poem
o The purpose of this poem is to show you life could end any moment and to take life and hold onto it as long as you can so when and if you die…you have had a good life.
• How does the author achieve this affect
o The author achieves this affect by simply taking this small accident, and emphasizing it, although things like this happen the child or man usually doesn’t die. So Mr. Frost does this by, adding words like snarled, rattled, and lines like “Little-Less-Nothing” to add on the main purpose.