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Journal entry #2: Write your own narrative extending or revealing hidden aspects of the story told in your assigned poem. Your stories should be based upon the facts and inferences you found in the group exercise; the stories should not contradict those facts and inferences, but may stretch them a bit. You might want to use the following questions as starting points, but do not have to.

- The poem “Out, Out-” by Robert Frost is a very interesting symbolic poem. I first started to wonder why the title of this poem was ‘Out, Out-’. The hand being cut off by a saw; hand was the one which was using the saw to work. As I read the poem about 5 times, I noticed that the hand, saw, doctor are symbolical. The saw and hand both are used to do work. However, the hand represents the laborers who works non-discriminately. The saw represents the machines that took over the laborers; the 'country' was getting industrialized! The doctors was one of those governments that first pretended that they were worried because of job-less people, but later doesn’t care because they are profiting from it. I think that Robert Frost wrote this poem because he was living through the industrialization periods, that he wanted to write about how job-less people were taken over by the machines.