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“Out, Out-’’
The slice of title borrowed from Shakespeare’s ‘Out Out Brief Candle’, portrays that the length of life on
earth is similitude to a lighting candle, one whip of a wind and its all in embers
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The poet uses vigorous
verbs and adjectives in the inaugurating lines to pave a path to the freight and danger ahead
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Details of the scenery heightens the interest
‘mountain ranges one behind another’, ‘sunset…Vermont’ by declaring a soothing atmosphere between the
natural landscapes
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Despite the presence of humans ‘eyes could count’ silence
is maintained makes the readers sense something unusual and dominating about the place
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Poet personifies
the saw ‘ran light,
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No indications of
furore in ‘nothing happened: day was
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The poem then sets the focus onto the victim of a bad fate, ‘pleased the boy’, ‘boy counts so much’
highlighting certain sentiments of the boy just before when he was oblivious of his dark future, and in the next
instant when he was deprived of his blithe, providing a stark contrast, ‘ given the hand’, ‘half in appeal’
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“Supper” spelled out by the sister
supposed to be a much awaited word has now been blamed as the cause of saw attacking-rather than the
boy’s carelessness for where he rested his hand
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a rueful laugh’, ‘half in appeal, half as if to keep’ and ‘Don’t let him cut off my hand’ all this
denote the agony and torture he suffers from and his crying out voice has been mentioned in direct speech,
‘Don’t let him, sister’ depicting he regrets the loss of something cannot undo, and he pleads proving he cannot
endure any further ail
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A sardonic comment ‘big boy, man’s work
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The finishing lines introduces the trials of the doctor, to correct the boy from his ‘spoiled’ state, ‘dark of
ether’ offer relief as the boy has been made unconscious and freed from suffering, but then with ‘pulse took
fright’ the strain is again built up and continued with a regretful climax ‘Little-less-nothing’, confirming his
death, shocking the reader’s how his sacrifice of a hand sacrificed him whole
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