366 48 208 48zM0 208C0 93. Out, Out—’ by Robert Frost is a haunting poem about a young out of the box valentine’s day ideas’s terrible accident. He accidentally severs his hand with a buzzsaw and passes away.

It was later included in his collection, Mountain Interval, published that same year. Raymon Tracy Fitzgerald, who died in an accident at a young age. Frost also makes use of a number of other poetic techniques. Then, after the young boy dies, the poem ends abruptly, as though there is nothing more to write about.

Life is texturally prioritized above death in order to make a larger statement about the nature of the real-life, historical incident. You can read the full poem here. It forces a reader down to the next line, and the next, quickly. One has to move forward in order to comfortably resolve a phrase or sentence. There are a number of examples within the poem, but a poignant example is in lines twenty-one and twenty-two. Under the sunset far into Vermont. In the next four lines, Frost utilizes the reader’s senses in order to expand the scene.