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What is the meaning of Out, Out?

What is the meaning of Out, Out?

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  1. In this poem, its title is a reference to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. There, in Act 5 of Scene 5, it says, “out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow.” So the title simply displays the meaninglessness of life and death.

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