Robert Frost's contemporary poem "Out, Out-" is a dramatic narrative. The author's tone is touching at the boy's misfortune and disappointed by people's reaction who witnessed The poet feels sincerely sorry for the boy and feels remorse for losing a young life to the strained maturity of child labor. Frost expresses this deep sorrow when he writes “Enough of that, I wish they had said it would have prevented the.” death of the boy. The themes illustrated in this poem are the uncertainty and unpredictability of life, how people, even children, with such a bright future ahead of them are suddenly swept away, their souls disappearing into the wind and the their memory is soon erased; forgotten. "Out, Out-" falls into the category of allusion, a poem with a hidden meaning that can only be revealed by reading between the lines child labor: a boy doing a man's work. The connection to modern times is made through the focus on child labour. The boy is saddened by the accident, but is horrified by the prospect of losing his hand. Although he is a child at heart, the maturity imposed on him beyond his years allows him to understand that his life would be hindered without the hand. He pleads with enthusiasm, so as not to cut it off as a useless part. It is for the reason that he would never be whole again that he dies, rather than the severity of the wound. He could no longer be the man working on the power saw and so his manhood was spoiled in the process. There is a repeated use of onomatopoeia in this poem, it allows us readers to imagine what we would have felt in that particular situation. . It plays an important role in the setting and effect more...... middle of paper ......w. The title of this poem is a direct reference to Shakespeare's Macbeth, more specifically the scene where Macbeth learns of his wife's successful suicide attempt. Like Macbeth, insensitive to pain, he exposes that emotion with a euphemism infinitely more touching than crying, wailing and anger. As he said: "Out, out, short candle!" “short” referring to the short life of mankind and the fact that it would have died anyway. Lady Macbeth uses the term “Out, damned place! Get out, I say!” as he frantically washes his hands in his sleep. We know the title is a quote because it contains quotation marks. This poem was supposedly based on the true story of a boy's death while working in New England. The central moral of "Out, Out-" is how inevitable death is, but more importantly the importance of the extremely negative effects of child labor.