"Out, Out-"

The speaker of the poem is an onlooker of the accident from the start until the end. In the poem a little boy probably around the age of twelve is cutting wood with a saw and the blade comes flying out and cuts his arm off. This takes place in the past when saws were extremely unsafe and when little kids worked. Tone of the poem is kind of dreary and sad because this young kid loses his life because his arm get cuts off and he bleeds to death. The theme of the poem is that life is very unpredictable and that you never know what could happen. Just like in the poem I'm positive the boy never thought he'd die that day while he was working with the saw. The author achieves the overall affect of the poem because of way the poem never has pauses or breaks so it just flows and is sort of fast. Just like life you can't slow down, you can only do what you have to.