Question

Because it tells a story, “Out, Out—” can be described as a narrative poem. Discuss the poem’s various narrative elements, including its setting, plot, characters, conflict, climax, and resolution. Analyze how these narrative elements work to convey what you think is the poem’s main theme.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

just don't really know how i would start it

Answer 4

what do you think the main theme is?

Answer 5

setting: some area where logging is taking place
plot:____
characters: the boy, his sister, the doctor (mentioned specifically)... but you know there are other lumberjacks around

conflict: the hand being cut, the boy not wanting to lose the hand

climax: the death

resolution: everyone just goes back to their lives... their affairs



First describe these elements in a little detail ... then explain how they convey the main theme?

Answer 6

How can I start it don't know how

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Answer 8

This poem is about a young boy doing big men’s work as he doing it he got really hurt and lost his life in the process. Its set five mountains range one behind the other under the sunset far into Vermont. The scents of chopped wood and the sound of the buzz-saw the boy still working and his sister tells them its suppertime.

Answer 9

this is the poem if someone can help me with it

Answer 10

OUT, OUT—”1

The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could count
5 Five mountain ranges one behind the other Under the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled, As it ran light, or had to bear a load. And nothing happened: day was all but done.
10 Call it a day, I wish they might have said To please the boy by giving him the half hour That a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside them in her apron To tell them “Supper.” At the word, the saw,
15 As if to prove saws knew what supper meant, Leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap— He must have given the hand. However it was, Neither refused the meeting. But the hand! The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh, 1This title alludes to the words of Shakespeare’s Macbeth on receiving news that his queen is dead: “Out, out, brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/And then is heard no more. It is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, /Signifying nothing” (Macbeth 5.5.23–28).
20 As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all— Since he was old enough to know, big boy Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart—
25 He saw all spoiled. “Don’t let him cut my hand off— The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!” So. But the hand was gone already. The doctor put him in the dark of ether. He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
30 And then—the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

Answer 11

I really do need help to start this paper can someone plz help me