Poetry help. out and out by Robert Frost?

Question

Can someone help me figure out this poem?
I need to know 
Who is the boy? How old is he? 
How is saw personified?
What does it mean when frost write "at the word, the saw?

Here is the poem
Mountain Interval1916The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard

And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,

Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

And from there those that lifted eyes could count

Five mountain ranges one behind the other

Under the sunset far into Vermont.

And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,

As it ran light, or had to bear a load.

And nothing happened: day was all but done.

Call it a day, I wish they might have said

To please the boy by giving him the half hour

That a boy counts so much when saved from work.

His sister stood beside them in her apron

To tell them "Supper." At that word, the saw,

As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,

Leaped out at the boy's hand, or seemed to leap --

He must have given the hand. However it was,

Neither refused the meeting. But the hand!

The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh,

As he swung toward them holding up the hand

Half in appeal, but half as if to keep

The life from spilling. Then the boy saw all --

Since he was old enough to know, big boy

Doing a man's work, though a child at heart --

He saw all spoiled. "Don't let him cut my hand off --

The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!"

So. But the hand was gone already.

The doctor put him in the dark of ether.

He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.

And then - the watcher at his pulse took fright.

No one believed. They listened at his heart.

Little -- less -- nothing! -- and that ended it.

No more to build on there. And they, since they

Battle axe · Accepted Answer

the boy is Israel the saw is eating supper and the job of the priest was to cut wood to keep the fire
on the altar 24-7  AT THE WORD OF GOD

Merry freakin christmas
WOW WOW WOW
A careful study of the text reveals that 
After Genesis 2:9-10 (two trees to eat from)and
Adam drove (OUT) of the Garden gen 3-24
5 separate times or 5 fingers for you((Out)) is doubled in the book
of Genesis or used twice in the same sentence.
And every time Son or sons are present in the verse
concluding with the hand taken and a RED
THREAD tied to it or the Red handed people(the lot)
are delivered then 12 times in Exodus the theme continues
12 separate times with deliverance being the theme or
subject WOW WOW WOW

Genesis 19:14King James Version (KJV)

14 And Lot went ((out)), and spake unto his sons in law, 
which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you ((out))
 of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. 
But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Genesis 30-16 And Jacob came ((out)) of the field in the 
evening, and Leah went ((out)) to meet him, and said , 
Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee 
with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

Genesis 34-24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son 
hearkened all that went((out)) of the gate of his city; 
and every male was circumcised , all that went ((out)) 
of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34-26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son 
with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah ((out)) of 
Shechem's house, and went ((out)) .

Genesis 38-28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, 
that the one put ((out)) his hand: and the midwife 
took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, 
This came ((out)) first.

im going to keep digging this is awsome
Exodus 1-10
3-8
8-13
11-8
18-10
20-2
21-3
25-32
32-1
32-8
34-34
37-18

? · Answer

First of all you need to know what the title is. It's not "out and out." It's "Out, out...," which is an allusion to a speech by Macbeth in Shakespeare's play, in which he forsees his coming death and meditates on the meaninglessness of life. That will probably help you understand this poem better.

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