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Robert Frost's insightful yet tragic poem "Out, Out--" can be described as a narrative poem. It utilizes the various narrative elements (i.e. setting, plot, conflict, etc.), realistic imagery and the personification of a buzz saw to depict how people must continue onward with their lives after the death of a loved one, while also hinting at the selfish nature of the human race, which oftentimes shows concern only for itself. The poem narrates the story of a boy who dies as a result of accidentally cutting off his hand with a buzz saw in his own yard. Frost uses imagery to reveal the setting, the boy's "yard" in "Vermont" right before "sunset," using vivid detail to describe the "five mountain ranges" within eyesight of the yard. The narrator foreshadows the tragic event to come when he "wishes" that the workers would have "[called] it a day" and...

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