Sounds in Poetry

The sounds that are heard in poems allows a reader to further connect to the characters in the poem. As personification lends itself to the sense of vision, sound in a poem does the same for the sense of hearing. In "Out, Out" Frost doesn't need to describe the saw for the reader to further understand the scene, instead he states, "Buzz- snaw snarled and rattled." By using words that connote a certain noise, Frost allows the reader to not only see words on a page, but also to hear them.