Identify the ordinary everyday annd horrific details in the poem "Out, Out--" by Robert Frost.

Robert Frost wrote the poem “Out, Out---“ based on an
event that he remembered from growing up. A neighbor boy had been killed in a farm
accident.  The title of the poem alludes to a quotation from the Shakespearean play
Macbeth.  When Macbeth learns of the death of his wife, he compares
her brief life to a burning candle:

readability="10">

Out, out, brief
candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poort
player

That struts and frets his time upon the
stage

And then is heard no
more...

A person’s life is so
precarious that it can be easily eradicated like snuffing out the flame of the candle.
In this poem, a young boy’s life is lost using a buzz saw.
 

The poem’s summary involves a young boy working with a
buzz saw that  he should not have been using. He was too inexperienced to be using this
dangerour machine.  As he is cuts the wood, his sister calls everyone in to supper.  The
call surprises the boy, and the saw goes out of control and nearly cuts the boy’s hand
off.  The family takes him to the doctor, who has to cut off the hand.  While a nurse
watches him,  he begins to breathe erratically.  He slowly stops breathing.  Frost
points out that the other people went on with their
lives.

Ordinary aspects of life mentioned in
the poem

• The surrounding area and
  setting are described. 


• The poem takes place in
  Vermont. 


• Five  mountain ranges can be seen in the
  distance. 


• The wind is blowing and bringing the smell of
  the sweetly scented wood.


•  The boy is cutting stove
  length stick of wood.


•  The sister calls out to the
  workers that it is time for supper.


• The young boy has
  worked all day.

The description
of the boy

• The poet wishes that
  the boy had been given thirty minutes   to play instead of working the same amount of
  time that the adults work.


• After cutting his hand, he is
  in shock and laughs rather than cries.The boy seemed to give his hand to the
  saw.


• He asks his sister not to let them cut off his
  hand.


• In reality, the boy knows that he has lost the
  hand. 


• His lips puff out as he
  breathes.

Five images of the buzz
saw

• Using onomatopoeia, the buzz
  saw makes the sounds of rattling and snarling.


• Dust from
  the saw fills the air as the wood is cut and falls to the
  ground.


• Again, in line 7, the sounds of the saw are
  mentioned.


• In connection with the sounds, the poet says
  that the saw runs either lightly or it had to bear a
  load. 


• The saw leaps out of the boy’s hand and cuts it
  deeply. 

The medical events

1. The saw almost cuts off the
   boy’s had.


2. The boy asks his sister not to let them cut
   off his hand.


3. The hand bleeds
   excessively.


4. The doctor gives the boy ether to
   anesthetize him.


5. At first,  his breathing seems normal:
   in and out, in and out.


6. The nurse takes his pulse and
   becomes concerned.


7. The boy’s heart slowly stops
   beating. 


8. The boy
   dies.

Theme

The
poem ends with the theme that since the people who were observing the death [which would
include parents, sibling, relatives, and friends] were not the one who had died that
there is nothing to be gained by focusing on the death of the young
boy. 

And
they, since they

Were not the one dead, turned to their
affairs.

Life goes on. 
Nothing can help the boy now; therefore, return to  each person’s own life and move
on.