Practice Work “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly,” which was said by Langston Hughes, connects to Robert Frost’s “Out, Out” due to how the boy does not have a break, no time for dreaming or for thinking of the future. The main boy is doing yard work, when he has his hand sliced open by a buzz saw. He had been taken to the doctor’s, and eventually dies. After this, everyone just goes on with life which is an interesting elongated metaphor. Robert Frost uses metaphors and hypotyposis to advance the overall theme that no matter whether the antagonist or the protagonist wins, life goes on. The elongated metaphor throughout “Out, Out,” by Robert Frost with the protagonist eventually being
