Robert Frost “Design”2. The poem begins with a white spider on a white healer clinging to a white moth. Just the knowledge of knowing that it's a spider, let alone a fat spider, has a negative connotation because to be honest, no one likes them. Spiders symbolize death and mystery. As for the healer, it is a plant commonly used for medicinal purposes. The rhyme scheme and vowels emphasize that they are "characters of death and doom".3. The first stanza has an observational tone. The narrator recounts his observation of a spider, a plant, and a moth. The tone becomes cynical in the third line where the narrator describes the moth as a “stiff satin cloth.” It describes its fragility compared to a satin fabric, but the stiffness also conflicts with its fragility. The second simile which compares the subjects of the poem to a witch's broth takes on a disgusting connotation.4. The verse reads: "Then led the white moth there in the night? / What else but the pattern of darkness fearful?" The speaker wonders what it is to design things that resemble death but ironically contain a sense of purity. If something that is pure is capable of being cynical, it makes one wonder how God could design much more complex organisms capable of feeling emotions and the like.5. Unlike the traditional Italian sonnet, the questions at the end of the poem are never answered, which leaves the audience to answer for themselves. The plan that God made for everything is manifested in everything. If there was evil in something so small, it would be amazing how God designed something more complex like humans. The 'pattern of darkness' is probably inherited by all existing things.6. The last one... in the center of the paper......stove. He wasn't really upset that it had died, but instead says the rooster tasted better than store-bought chicken. After dinner, he played with the dead cat's claws, which sounds pretty cynical. Even if he plays with his claws, he cries for him.4. The theme of the poem refers to the idea of death and mortality. It is practically everywhere and exists in everything. The depressing thing is that people seem to overlook it or choose to ignore it. It is a possibility that the event of death has become something to go unnoticed and a norm. The boy experienced at least four deaths during that day and witnessed disgustingly terrifying things about animals in his neighborhood. Knowing that he and his brother played with the cat's corpse is truly disturbing. The arrogance and attitude towards death is so casual that it becomes something that is overlooked.
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