Poetry sounds can give a poem rhythm, emotion, and tone. Sounds can be incorporated in the pace and use of either short or long words in a poem or it can be the literal sounds of a machine or object. For example the poem out out by Robert Frost examplifies sounds by using words like “snarled” and “rattled” to discribe the buzz saw. This personificaion of an animal is foreshadowing to the boy’s fate. The sounds also give the saw an aggressive persona. The saw is then givin a mind when he seems to jump at the boys hand when his sister calls for supper as if he understood what she said. The harsh sounds go hand in hand with the harsh reality of what happens after the boy passes.
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