Out, Out-
- Created by: daisy_brown
- Created on: 01-05-16 10:43
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- "Out, Out-"
- Themes
- Youth
- depicts youth as an idealised, edenic state full of possibility
- poetic tone becomes increasingly jaded and didactic
- Narrative perspective/ voice
- narrator sets the scene from an outsider's perspective, reporting incdident with objectivity and contstraint
- tone becomes reflective and complacent
- "and nothing happened: day was all but one"
- "call it a day I wish they might have said"
- use of first person shows sympathy for the boy and emphasises the need for others to empathise with the young boy
- "saved from work"
- ironic use of "saved" as we have an image of a powerless little boy under the heartless control of adults
- first person narrator who acts as a recorder and a commentator
- feel of an omniscient narrator in some places
- solemn
- philosophical tone
- clear sense of the reader who is being addressed
- voice of the boy and the sister
- single verse paragraph to capture one single incident
- rhythm of normal voice captures the normality of the scene
- use of short sentences and minor sentences and imperatives
- youth is portrayed as a time of unchecked freedom that is taken for granted and then lost
- Narrative perspective/ voice
- poetic tone becomes increasingly jaded and didactic
- depicts youth as an idealised, edenic state full of possibility
- Loss of Innocence
- Untitled
- Life is short and fragile in composition
- Youth
- Characterisation
- "leaped out of the boys hand, or seemed to leap-"
- the saw is personified as a well-trained animal responding to its master's signal
- tone becomes frightening- theme of the fragility of life emerges
- "his sister stood beside him in her apron to tell them 'supper' "
- domestic, homely image and turning point
- "that ended it" - as thought the boys is an object
- "leaped out of the boys hand, or seemed to leap-"
- Structure
- unrhymed iambic pentameter aka blank verse
- until "the hand was gone already"
- the breaking of such a regular, rigid form heightens the sense of immediacy and intimacy
- the flow of the poem dies, just like the boy is about to
- the breaking of such a regular, rigid form heightens the sense of immediacy and intimacy
- until "the hand was gone already"
- story begins in the middle of events - dropped straight into action
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- unrhymed iambic pentameter aka blank verse
- Language
- "snarled and rattled"
- juxtaposition of animalistic outburst of emotion with the sounds of manmade machinery
- auditory imagery
- buzz saw is described with human characteristics
- compared to a predatory animal
- onomatopoeic sounds plus the repetition and rhythm give it a mechanical effect making it appear that this saw has a mind of its own
- tranquil setting
- "snarled and rattled"
- Time
- Endings
- Pragmatically explains that life continues to go on
- the poem's pulse winds down with with the boy's
- "and they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs"
- they against one
- very detached and surprising given the lack of grief expressed at this fatal accident
- workers are hardened in the face of death
- Untitled
- workers are hardened in the face of death
- Plot, journey and destination
- Setting/ place
- Title
- alludes to Macbeth's speech after the death of his wife
- shows the briefness of life
- effectively captures the moment of death
- brings together themes of word, death and the meaningless of life itself
- family farm, evening, "supper time"
- "under the sunset far into Vermont"
- the majestic settings emphasise the relative smallness of the boy
- peaceful setting of the farm is deceptive
- calm tone conveys the impression of a safe, quiet, rural spot away from the noise and bustle of the city
- "dust", "sweet-scented stuff"
- sense of sight, smell and tough are evoked
- tranquil setting
- Vermont- magnitude/ majestic of the setting makes the boy seem even more significant in comparison
- a specific wood yard
- the end of a working day
- Title
- Narrative perspective/ voice
- narrator sets the scene from an outsider's perspective, reporting incdident with objectivity and contstraint
- tone becomes reflective and complacent
- "and nothing happened: day was all but one"
- "call it a day I wish they might have said"
- use of first person shows sympathy for the boy and emphasises the need for others to empathise with the young boy
- "saved from work"
- ironic use of "saved" as we have an image of a powerless little boy under the heartless control of adults
- first person narrator who acts as a recorder and a commentator
- feel of an omniscient narrator in some places
- solemn
- philosophical tone
- clear sense of the reader who is being addressed
- voice of the boy and the sister
- single verse paragraph to capture one single incident
- rhythm of normal voice captures the normality of the scene
- use of short sentences and minor sentences and imperatives
- Motifs/ symbols
- powerful images of death
- "but half as if to keep the life from spilling"
- "little- less- nothing"
- powerful images of death
- Moments of crisis/ key events
- "the doctor put him in the dark of ether"
- almost pathetic fallacy as the "dark" is snyonomous with the putting out of a candle and the extinguishing of life
- Untitled
- almost pathetic fallacy as the "dark" is snyonomous with the putting out of a candle and the extinguishing of life
- "the watcher at his pulse took fright"
- "watcher" is an industrial term rather than comfortable relation of mother and father for example
- "no more to build on there"
- the speed wit which
- Untitled
- "the doctor put him in the dark of ether"
- Tragedy
- Untitled
- title and its origin in Macbeth
- indifference to life as suggested by the title and the ending of the poem
- loss of the child
- terruible manner of the child's death
- tragic in a modern sense
- the child's suffering
- the villainy od the saw
- use of shock
- absence of God or the divine intervention
- Themes
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