Analysis Of Robert Frost s White - 919 Words

In 1922, Robert Frost wrote the poem â€Å"In White.† Frost then revised this poem fourteen years later and published it under the title â€Å"Design.† On the surface, the speaker in the poem describes a situation in which a spider has killed a moth on a heal-all flower. But, as the layers are peeled back, there arises a conflict between the speaker and him/herself. The internal conflict stems from the world’s design or lack thereof. Frost takes a simple thought on design and makes the reader question life and the nature of creation through a random, haphazard occurrence of a spider, a moth, and a flower. To start the poem, the speaker stumbles upon a â€Å"fat and white† spider â€Å"on a white heal-all, holding up a moth† (1-2). This doesn’t tell the full story, but it does show the reader that there is a random occurrence between a spider, a moth, and a flower. As shown in the legend, a heal-all flower is usually blue but in this case it i s white. 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