Out, Out—
A buzz-saw snarls and rattles in a Vermont dooryard through an afternoon of stove-length sticks, with five mountain ranges one behind another in the sunset, and the boy working it is old enough to be doing a man's work and young enough to be glad of the half hour a man would count as saved. His sister comes out in her apron to say supper, and at the word the saw meets his hand. Frost took the incident from a Littleton newspaper report and the title from Macbeth.
Open Out, Out— in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.
Lineage
- takes its title from ↑ Macbeth
Attributes
Genre
Plot structure
Emotional arc (story shape)
Symbol / motif
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 57% · 10 shared
- 56% · 8 shared
- 52% · 9 shared
- 52% · 8 shared
- 52% · 8 shared
- 49% · 9 shared