Tuesday, November 9, 2010

How did Frost use language to deliver the theme in his poem 'Out Out'

Frost's diction reveals that death can be random and life
can be insignificant. His diction sets up in lines 1–8 images of sound (onomatopoetic
snarled and rattled), smell (sweet-scented stuff), and sight (dust, sticks, mountains)
that evoke the instant and the immediate. Our sense of the instant is expanded in lines
9–14; we learn that the day has been uneventful, work is over, and it’s supper time. The
boy’s hand is severed by accident in one moment of inattention. The poem is structured
by stages toward death; each one is unanticipated. The rueful laugh and the spoiled life
are followed by fading pulse (No one believed) and then death. No one understands what
is happening; the death, like the cut, is a product of chance. Those who turned to their
affairs (we don’t know who they are) but may be the emergency room attendants of doctors
and nurses, underscore the insignificance and randomness of chance
events.

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