Frost's Poem "Design"

Images
-dimpled spider
-moth
-dead wings
-kindred spider
-white
- witches’ broth

In this poem “Design”, written by Robert Frost, Robert mentions about a dimpled spider catching a moth on the “self-heal” plants on the first strophe. He describes the process of the spider eating the moth on the “self-heal” plants.” The moth can be described as a strong character and having a white color skin because the author mentions the moth is a strong stain cloth which makes me think that the moth is something hard to catch. The next two lines talks about that the methods of the spider on what it could do to the moth for the upcoming days. This is like the ingredients of the witches’ broth because the spiders just mix their methods on what to do with the moth. From the last two lines, it can be assumed that the spider just ripped the moth apart on the flower because it talks about the dead wings were carried like a paper kite. From this given information, it conveys that the ingredients in the witches’ broth are evil or something dangerous. The flower being white can be something like a deathbed when someone passes away because the color white resembles faint.

On the second strophe, Frost questions the natural why does all of this have to happen. He wonders why the spider becomes bigger and what causes the moth to appear in the night. All these images that I listed above describe the process of natural and death. It is normal for the moth to appear at night and get trapped on the “white flower.” Frost said the flowers were supposed to be innocent and not white, but this is what the flower is supposed to be. The idea of this poem is for us not to take things too lightly because some creatures or plants are supposed to look the way it is. Even though they might seem harmless and innocent, they can lead you to darkness, which is death.