The assignment is to:

- explain how the poet uses elements of poetry to accomplish the theme/message.

also to include information about the poem such as
-speaker, theme/message, form, rhyme scheme, imagery, sound, and figurative language.

-tell why the poet uses the poetic devices
-how did the poet use the elements to emphasize the theme
-how does rhythm reinforce the action of the poem


We were to choose any poem, and I thought that Out, Out by Robert Frost would be best

please let me know if you can help identify any of these things in this poem
--or possibly if you have an suggestions for a different poem i should use

alliterations and other devices were emphasized a lot in this poem, however i am having trouble identifying the theme/message and mood.

PLEASE HELP ASAP
THANK YOU!

here is the poem if it helps...


"Out, Out - "
by: Robert Frost

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behing the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.
Call it a day, I wish they might have said
To please the boy by giving him the half hour
That a boy counts so much when saved from work.
His sister stood beside him in her apron
To tell them "Supper." At the word, the saw,
As if it meant to prove saws know what supper meant,
Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap -
He must have given the hand. However it was,
Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!
Half in appeal, but half as if to keep
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 -
He saw all was spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off -
The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"
So. The hand was gone already.
The doctor put him in the dark of ether.
He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
And then - the watcher at his pulse took a fright.
No one believed. They listened to his heart.
Little - less - nothing! - and that ended it.
No more to build on there. And they, since they
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

I would say one theme is the fragility of life- perhaps another is how little we matter to one another.

Try reading it out loud- are you smiling? Sad? depressed? That's the poem's mood.

Read it out two or three times. Listen as you do to how the words make the poem speed up/slow down, or emphasize some area. That will answer your rhythm question.

pam

yeah, thanks....

any thoughts on the meaning of the title

many websites say it has some relationship to shakespeare's macbeth

"out, out brief cande...."

im really not sure what it means

Yes, I would say so. Here's the quote-

"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: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Macbeth Quote (Act V, Scene V).

The 'brief candle' is life.

pam