This heartbreaking poem tells the story of a young boy who suffers a terrible accident while working. The poem's title references a line from William Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle!" Read the poem here.
Here are links to our lists for other poems by Robert Frost: "The Death of the Hired Man", "After Apple-Picking", "Mending Wall", "Birches"
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