DEFINITION of 'Utility'. 1. An economic term referring to the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service. 2. A company that generates, transmits and/or distributes electricity, water and/or gas from facilities that it owns and/or operates.
by Robert Frost. Robert Frost: Poems Summary and Analysis of Out, Out (1916) A young man is cutting firewood with a buzz saw in New England. Near the end of the day, the boyâs sister announces that it is time for dinner and, out of excitement, the boy accidentally cuts his hand with the saw.
Source(s) I see nothing in this poem about the cruelty of nature. Yes, this poem is in its own way about conquering nature, clearing the land, cutting wood for the stove (warnth, food), but the boys death comes from the slip of a saw and tragic loss of a hand. Nature doesn't snarl and rattle, the saw or shall we say the technology snarls and rattles.