out out essay by robert frost
...o bear a load.” “As it ran light or had to bear a load” may be an indication that the saw was not working properly and seemed to be unstable and hard for the young boy to handle. Hard at work his sister called him for supper. “His sister stood beside them in her apron to tell them “Supper.” It was as if the moment his sister called him for supper the saw became hungry at the same time.” As if to prove saws knew what supper meant, leaped out at the boy’s hand, or seemed to leap.” Timing was everything when it came to the boy’s fate. “Call it a day I wish they might have said to please the boy by giving him a half hour that the boy counts so much when saved from work.” The boy should have never been doing this kind of work, and maybe this would have never happened. Like a flash the boy’s hand was sawed off, it was as if the saw had a mind of it’s own. “However it was neither refused the meeting, but the hand.” This has shocked the boy. He was so young as to not realize immediately the seriousness of what has just happened. “The boy’s first outcry was a rueful laugh.” He suddenly realized that this might be the end of a rude awaking to maturing for a boy his age. “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.” His sister had realized what had happened that split second and rushed to his aid. When she got there she realized that the hand was gone already, and this would be the end of the road for the young boy. “He saw all spoiled. Don’t let him cut my hand off- the doctor when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!” The doctor arrived too late to save his life, but tried to him comfortable with ether, and made an attempt to save his life. “The doctor put him in the dark of ether.” The small crowd that had gathered realized that his life was ending, and that there was nothing anyone could do. “He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath, and then--- the watcher at his pulse took fright. No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little---less---nothing! And that ended it.” Relieve that it was not them who suffered the same fate as the boy. They all went on with their work. “No more to build on there. And they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” The young boy’s life was easily forgotten. The poem is reflecting Frost’s opinion of life and its brevity. Frost’s poem and Macbeth have a similarity between them and are often discussed together when reading this poem. The fatal blow that took the boy’s life was an unpredictable accid...