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Journal Entry: “Out, Out” by Robert Frost

“Out, Out” is a poem about a boy who had accidently sawed his hand off, while working. The boy let out a ‘rueful laugh’ when the saw cut his hand, because he probably knew that this event was unpreventable, and he knew that his time was up. But still the boy tries to ‘keep the life from spilling’. Then when the boy dies, everyone else just continues to work, because it wasn’t them who died. Alth ough in the poem, it constantly refers to the main character as a boy, I think that it represents how when people grow up, they’re still children inside, from looking at: “ Since he was old enough to know, big boy Doing a man's work, though a child at heart”. I think this boy represents just everyone alive, and how life can be short and unexpected, and even when people die, the world will still go round, the same as before.