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When I see Out, Out! I am more reminded of an impatient mother's command to her young son when he comes running onto her fresh-mopped floor than of Out, damn Spot, Out but this out, out reminds me of the snuffing of a candle.

To Matt - yes, I think it does. As tupelo suggests, it's not "out, damned spot" -- don't know why you'd think it was that one, especially if you read Danielle's post. The Macbeth soliloqy I think you're referring to goes like this:
Out, out brief candle!
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player
Who 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.

Yeah Macbeth.

It's a very tragic poem...Ironically, the incident happened at supper time too. The saw should never been in that boy's hand. He was pretending to be adult and all, but he returned to his childhood when he begged to keep his hand.

I'd say the kid was from 9-12. It also seems weird. One moment he is there, the next, he's not...:(

This poem was written in1936--before child-labor laws. Many have commented that the boy should never had been 'playing' with the saw. In actuality this boy was working, not playing.

The poem is reflecting Frost's opinion of life and its brevity. If you have never read Macbeth, you might get lost in the other details. The fatal blow that took the boys life was an unpredicatible accident and such a blow that ends a life prematuraly leaves one feeling the tragic waste of Human poteniality. So, Frost depicts his believe of how useless life is and how it has now point, no lasting impressions.

I am a grade seven student. This poem gives us an idea how some kids work all day and night.
When the kid was hurt no one really cared about hid death. They just turned thier backs and walked away
How cruel can you be?

It’s ironic that Frost makes the boy’s hand lifeless and dead but the thing that made it that way was so alive throughout the poem. The saw is like an untamed lion, Frost has the saw leap, snarl, and react to the words supper. Possibly an animal used as a work animal that has to bear a load. He brings such an inanimate object to life but in the end has the boy suffer through death.

Well... I stumbled onto this place and was most dismayed when I didn't at first see the tie to macbeth. The silioquy in macbeth:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all out yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. 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.

is closely related to the poem of frost. knowing the allusion atomaticly seems to tag on the brief candle in the title.. being the boy. The lose of a life that was so young and brief in exsistance. Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow....creeping in the petty pace from day to day, being the repitition of work that the boy must do day in and day out. To the last syllable of recorded time.. being that he must work until either there is none left... or he is no longer able to work. and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.. being that the repatition of doing the work becomes mind numbing.. the boy does his work like a man as he must but wishes with all his might that even a half hour away from it becomes a wonder, and it causes you to be not nessessarly careless in your work, but that you just atomaticly do the work without thinking. Which brings us back to out out.. the snuffing out of a young life. Then Life's but a walking shadow.."For our time is as a shadow that passeth away and after our end there is no returning (Solomon 2.4) Once his hand is severed and bleeding there is now way to stop or change what has happend. a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more...the boy does his work as best he can for a boy doing a mans job, its what he must do on his stage, his world, but he is not to be around again for his lifes blood is draining away and he is dying. And.. it is a tale told by an idiot... The saw being the idiot.. it spins the tale which is the boys life day by day and that is its only perpus to saw, yet.. its tale is full of ... Sound and fury.. cutting the hand and the boy wailing for his hand to not be taken though it is already gone to his sister, Fury "Don't let him, sister!" and is all comes down to... Signifying nothing... There was nothing that could be done.. he was a boy living five mountain ranges away from others in a remote part of vermont, "and that ended it." there was "no more to build on there." nothing could be done for the life lost. "And they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs." a person is dead, there is much that must be done by getting them in the gound and morning and all... but still since you are not dead you have to move on, even if you don't forget, you still live and continure what you have to.
The poem by frost was inspired by a newspaper account he found that was just a little tiny part of a huge paper and said very little.

fogive my seeming drawn out post... but in my english class at this very moment we are studing this very connection between the silioquy and the frost poem. In fact I think I may have just writin my paper by posting this, trying to make it for others to understand made the thought process a lot easyer to write down. thank you all for bareing with me.

I have an idea, how about people read other's postings before saying that no one said certain things about the poem... For example, one person said that no one mentioned macbeth and the silioquy, wow that person should have looked at the posting just a few entries above hers and would have seen that it was addressed. Stop trying to be clever and original when it has already been said. read the other postings. that's all, that's what they're here for.

This is definitely similar to Macbeth. D-uh!