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    1. The words "life" and "blood" can be used as synonyms, so the metonymy in lines 21 and 22 resides in the use of the word "life" in place of the word "blood".

    2. The poem's title is a reference to Shakespeare's Macbeth. The words "Out, out" are spoken by the play's eponymous protagonist.

    3. The poem's tone is one of reserved depreciation. Frost's word choice is not simple or informal: it makes the poem's voice distant. Additionally, the use of words like "snarled" gives the poem an aggressive tone, highlighting the contradiction between the child working and the work itself: in effect, Robert Frost contrasts the child's innocence with the work's menial nature.

    4. One can find consonance in Frost's poem in the line "snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled" with the repetition of the "ed" sound. The consonance makes the poem's tone rather coarse and blunt, making it more compatible with the poem's reserved voice and rather sober descriptions.

    5. I do not think that the poem's ending is callous. Frost's sober tone throughout the poem serves to heighten the sense of antagonism towards the fact that the child must work, given that its stark presentation of the apathetic atmosphere gives the reader more space in which to identify him or herself emotionally with the plea of children that are forced to labor. Were Frost to use a more emotional ending, he would effectively suggest to the reader the sensations he or she must feel and distance the reader from the text, given that he or she would not be invited to respond to the poem at a personal level.

    <font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 11, 2008 11:55 PM: Message edited by: alberto_dacosta ]</font>

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    1. "...as if to keep the life from spilling" is a metonymy for preventing his death.

    2. "Out, out" is a line from Macbeth. It compares life to a candle. It can blow out in an instant.

    3. The tone is very detached, almost apathetic.
    "And from there those that lifted eyes could count
    Five mountain ranges one behind the other
    Under the sunset far into Vermont." It starts out with a beautiful scenery and prospectives only to let down the reader with a death.

    4. "The buzz saw snarled and rattled" is an onomatopoeia which is used initially to contribute to the feeling of beauty, and a fresh and crisp setting.

    5. I think that making it more sentimental would have made the poem much more common, and this one is unique because of its detached tone and cold shift from beauty to death.

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    1. Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
    The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all ?
    In these lines, the author replaces the word blood with life, since the spilling of blood meant the spilling of life.
    2. The allusion in this poem refers to Macbeth?s lines ?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?. This line talks about life being like a candle, short and brief.
    3. The tone of the poem is serious and cold. This adds to the irony of the poem, which lays in the idea that after the boy is dead, everyone acts as if nothing happened, as lines 33-34 show. The images throughout the poem are detailed and concise; they are told as hard facts, and since the story it tells is tragic, the fact that there are only facts helps create a sense of coldness to heart.
    4. And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
    With this line the author creates an environment of hard work.
    The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh,
    By reacting to his accident by laughing, the boy portrays some sort of insensitive character who doesn?t really care about his hand. An apologetic laugh to this kind of accident is a cruel sound. If one is placed in this situation the last thing to do is to laugh. By placing this sound, one yet again gets the sense of coldness and lack of feeling.
    5. The end of this poem adds perfectly to the feeling throughout the poem. With these lines at the end one can sense the sarcasm that is in this story. These people only care about work, making a young man ?child at heart? do adults work.

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    1. The metonymy is found in the life that spills, where life means blood.
    2. The title of the poem alludes a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The line talks about death.
    3. I sense a tone of indifference. The voice just narrates the poem without bias, sorrow, nothing. It is just a story despite of the dramatic content.
    4. The imagery at the beggining gives you a sense of placement: the scene where the story takes place.
    5. The end of the poem seems callous but it is just perfect. The kid died and nobody cared since they weren't the ones who died. It is great irony and it actually made the poem better, and it also goes with the indifferent tone of the poem. [img]graemlins/martini.gif[/img]

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