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'Out, Out-'

by Robert Frost

A boy doing chores on a farm loses his hand to a buzz-saw and dies; the watching adults, after a brief shock, "turn[] to their affairs". Frost’s title quotes Macbeth.

DeathChildhoodIndifference of natureWork

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Rights notice (UK): Frost died 1963; UK copyright expires 31 December 2033. Quotations are short fair-dealing extracts. Frost is public domain in the United States, but not in the UK - students using overseas revision resources should be aware that those reproductions are not redistributable in the UK platform.

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Edexcel IGCSE Language (4EA1)

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4EA1 Component 2 (Unit 2 Section A, examined) and Component 3 (Unit 3, non-examined assessment). Five poems then five prose.

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All ten texts in Part 2 are compulsory.

Part 2 of the anthology, page 26.

Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).

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'Out, Out-'

by Robert Frost

A boy doing chores on a farm loses his hand to a buzz-saw and dies; the watching adults, after a brief shock, "turn[] to their affairs". Frost’s title quotes Macbeth.

DeathChildhoodIndifference of natureWork

UK rights notice

Rights notice (UK): Frost died 1963; UK copyright expires 31 December 2033. Quotations are short fair-dealing extracts. Frost is public domain in the United States, but not in the UK - students using overseas revision resources should be aware that those reproductions are not redistributable in the UK platform.

Where this text is on your exam

Read from the specification itself, not summarised from anywhere else.

Edexcel IGCSE Language (4EA1)

Assessed in

4EA1 Component 2 (Unit 2 Section A, examined) and Component 3 (Unit 3, non-examined assessment). Five poems then five prose.

Your choice

All ten texts in Part 2 are compulsory.

Part 2 of the anthology, page 26.

Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).

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