What Is The Theme Of The Poem Design By Robert Frost

Robert Frost's Design Robert Frost outlines an ironic and disturbing situation involving a flower, a spider, and a moth in his poem "Design". The poem's text suggests the possibility of an absence of a god, but does no more than simply beg the question, for Frost's speaker does not offer the answer. By examining the events of the poem in the first stanza and the speaker's annotative second stanza, we

Frost entrances the reader’s mind with the bountiful amount of imagery within the poem. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” the comforting and well-known nature that Frost describes contradicts against the terrifying reality of the unknown through decision making. Frost goes on to explain how he, as many others do, try to visualize what his life would be like if he were to go down one of the roads he chose, “Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could” worrying about how decisions will affect every independent life can be a hassle and trying to understand and fully

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

In Robert Frost’s “Design,” written in 1922, the narrator laments the juxtaposition of life and death that he bears witness to when he sees a spider on a heal-all flower carrying the dead moth it has killed. He uses a modified Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, punctuation, repetition of rhyme and diction, repetition of anomaly, and repetition of the same rhyme in both the octave and the sestet, to convey that death is a question that cannot be answered and that the only solution, the only answer, is to continue to ponder over it. While it is a question that cannot be answered, it must be questioned anyway. He uses symbols he has drawn from in earlier works, as well as his experience playing with the form of the Petrarchan sonnet in the past, to help shed light on the importance of this.

Robert Frost's deeply-rooted beliefs in nature influence him to view death positively. Through enticing images of solitude

Anyways, this poem portrays a sense of free will and faith stating how God made this world in his image and also stating is Gods divine work made for everything on earth including the motives of a tiny spider. Humans think on the fact that while we make their own choices, there is a great power that has control over the whole universe. We like to think that there is a reason for everything. Like that there is a reason that all of this stuff that is bad is happening to me today is for a greater purpose but in the poem Design, Frost shows the other side of that idea. If God is in control of everything then that means he has his hand in all of the things we do and even the terrible

Just like the other two poems listed above, this is a personal narrative in which Robert recalls watching a white moth landing on a white flower and being eaten by a white spider. Frost refers to the moths wings as “a white piece of rigid satin cloth” referring to the white satin that is lined in a casket. Robert refers to the spider, flower and moth as characters of “death and blight” like characters on a keyboard, which raises the question of whether or not the moth landing on the white flower that was secretly holding his predator was simply coincidence or fate. He compared the wings of the moth to the wings of a kite in which both are blown around by the wind and questions what force is behind the questioned if the moth was “steered” by this force. The title, ‘Design,’ differs from all three of the other narratives in that it holds greater meaning than just a description of a story that follows. The word “design” in this case has a double meaning. Robert Frost cleverly titled his poem to make you think much more deeply and question why things happen the way they do. The title refers to a much deeper philosophy in which there is an argument for the existence of some higher being (a God) who is actually controlling everything, including the death of the moth. The structure of this poem is fourteen lines of iambic pentameter that consists of a short (or unstressed) syllable followed by a long (or stressed syllable). Being fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, this poem is a sonnet, specifically, a sonnet of the Italian (Petrarchan) model that consists of two stanzas. The first stanza is an eight-line octave and the second stanza is a six-line sestet (the last six lines of a sonnet). There was no clear rhyme scheme (ABBAABBA

Robert Frost used his poem “Design” to question the meaning of life and to explore the reason in which things happen in the way they do. “Design” begins with the speaker introducing the main characters of the play; a white spider with dimples, a white flower, and a white moth. The use of the color white in this poem demonstrates Frost’s battle with good vs. evil. For example, white is a color that is typically used to represent purity and goodness. If white represents goodness, how then, the speaker wonders, could this supposed goodness kill another being for its own benefit? In other words, the white spider sat upon a white flower and killed a white moth. Therefore, white cannot always represent goodness. If that were the case, the spider and moth would live together in harmony, and instead of the spider taking the moths life on the white flower, the spider and moth would have shared their seat upon the white flower in peace.

Robert Frost’s poetic techniques serve as his own “momentary stay against confusion,” or as a buffer against mortality and meaninglessness in several different ways; in the next few examples, I intend to prove this. Firstly, however, a little information about Robert Frost and his works must be provided in order to understand some references and information given.

“In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on” (Robert Frost). Robert Frost is easily one of America’s greatest poets. With their simplicity, fluidity, and t creativity his poems become something that anyone can understand. It is through his poems that his life’s philosophies are expressed. He simply believes that life goes on and death is something that must come, and it is our job to respect it, accept it, and move on. His poems usually share a common theme, that it is our job to accept death and not try to question it, because it is through the questioning of death that our lives become complicated and unnecessary.

make a decision and at the end of the day, the nature of the decision

“The Road Not Taken” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay” are just two of many very famous poems, written by none other than Robert Frost. Robert Frost is a poet that is well known for his poetic contributions to nature, as well as his award winning poems. His poetic ability and knowledge make him an extraordinary author. His past; including schooling, family, and the era in which he wrote influenced nearly all of his poems in some way. This very famous poet contributed to the modernism era, had a family and an interesting life story, and a unique poetic style as well.

The poem "Design" explores whether the events in nature are simply random occurrences or part of a larger plan by God, and if there's a force that dominates and controls our very existence. On that point both Jere K Huzzard and Everett Carter aggress on. They differ in their interpretations of the poem's ending and what they think Frost wanted to convey with his vague ending. Both agree that the last line of the poem was written in an undefined way with purpose on Frost's side. But each critic poses his own ideas regarding what is the meaning of that line. While Carter examines the whole poem in order to answer this question, Huzzard chose to focus only on the last two lines.

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.

     A very interesting point regarding Frost’s relationship with nature is that he views it with ambiguity. Most assume that Frost is a nature lover; however, while this is true in part, Frost also views nature as having the capability of being destructive. Lynen speaks of this duality by saying, “You cannot have one without the other: love of natural beauty and horror at the remoteness and indifference of the physical world are not opposites but different aspects of the same view” (7). On speaking of Frost’s dualistic view of nature, Phillip L. Gerber states, “For nature is hard as she is soft, she can destroy and thwart, disappoint, frustrate, and batter” (132). Robert Frost views nature as an ‘alien force capable of destroying man’, but on the flip side, he also views “man’s struggle with nature as a heroic battle” (quoted in Thompson).