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Essay on Out Out a poem by Robert Frost
The poem “Out, Out” is written by ‘Robert Frost.’ The writer has explained the feelings of a boy with great intensity. It is about a boy working in the Green Mountain State, Vermont. The ambience of this exotic place could be felt in the descriptive words used by the poet. The beauty of nature and the simplicity of the working boy are the main components of the poem. The poem comprises of an ordinary boy’s story who invites death himself. But if one empathizes with the boy only then the boy’s problem could be understood. However the people with the boy did sympathize with the boy before his death, but the writer is trying to evoke the feeling of empathy in the reader. The writer succeeds as the poem leaves the reader in great sorrow in the end. Working with a saw is an adult’s job, but the boy is working with it and the ones he is working under are cruel enough to not let him have his evening meals.
The first paragraph informs the reader of the boy’s job that is cutting the sticks with a saw. The poet describes the sticks of wood by comparing them with the length of the stove, as it goes about this way in the poem ‘And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,’ (2). The smell of wood in the mountain ranges is said to be beautiful due to the climatic factor, and thus the poet here describes it as something with a sweet smell, and it could be felt just as breeze came along. There are five mountain ranges, as mentioned by the poet, each one after one another. The sun sets behind these mountains, and as evening time is approaching the boy is feeling tired because ‘As it ran light, or had to bear a load’ (8)..........
