Out, Out Summary by Robert Frost
Out, Out Lines by lines Summary
Lines 1-3: When a boy was cutting wood with saw, the saw was making humming sound in the yard of the saw mill. It was creating dust and dropping pieces of wood suitable for cooking. When the soft wind var blowing, it spread the sweet-scented dust of wood.
Lines 4-6: While cutting wood, the boy raised his eyes and could count five ranges of mountains far into a place, Vermont. And the sun was setting that time. Actually, the boy wanted to escape fromm work.
Lines 7-9: The saw was making rattling sound as it was cutting wood. It was going smoothly and the day passed away.
Lines 10-12: Here the poet says that the owner should stop.the activity of the mill and might please the boy permitting him to leave the work before half an hour. A working boy actually enjoys free time too much. But the boy was not given any freedom before the fixed time. He continued to work.
Lines 13-18: The boy's sister wearing her apron came to the mill and stood beside her brother with supper. When she called her brother for supper, the boy looked at her. Just then the saw cut the hand of the boy as if the saw did not want the boy to have his meal. The saw cut the hand of the boy so that the boy could not eat his supper. The boy had to leave his hand for supper.
Lines 19-34: The boy began to cry in pain. He raised his injured hand and waved it to others. He cried and requested others and tried to save his hand. Though the boy was a child, he knew that he was doing the job of a grown-up man. He knew that his life was being spoiled. When the doctor came, he cried and requested his sister not to allow the doctor to cut his hand off. But the doctor could not save his hand. The hand had already been cut off in the saw.
The doctor gave the boy anesthesia and the boy grew unconscious. The boy breathed slowly in the state of unconsciousness and his pulse became weak. Then the caretaker noticed the change and realized that the boy was dying. The watcher saw the boy was going to stop breathing. Nobody believed it. Then all tried to listen the beat of his heart. The heart stopped beating gradually. The boy died. Then nobody cared for the boy's death. Others went back to their work.
Out, Out short Summary
This poem is a lamentation against child labour. Here the poet has depicted the hard realities of life. The boy who should play with his playmates has to do a man's work to earn a living being compelled by abject poverty. Here the poet has depicted the predicament of the working children.
Out, Out Poem Theme
This poem is a lamentation against child labour. Here the poet has depicted the hard realities of life. The boy who should play with his playmates has to do a man's work to earn a living being compelled by abject poverty. Here the poet has depicted the predicament of the working children.
Or,
Life is very fragile. The immature and cruel death of a young boy depicts the nothingness of life and its brevity. It also shows the atrocities of the modern mechanical society. The society forced a young boy and his sister to become victims of its atrocities. Most importantly, it did not show any sympathy to the boy.
Or,
The poem delineates a modern mechanical society which allows child labor. The pathetic death of a little boy forced materialistic modern society is also shown in this poem the young boy, supposed to spend time in playing, is forced to work in a sawmill meeting a tragic premature death which is also an important factor of this poem.
