Lunes, Nobyembre 16, 2015



'Design' by Robert Frost (1922)

'I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth-
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.'
'What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?-
If design govern in a thing so small.'


  The text shows about an event happening among the spider, the web, and the medicinal flower.When you read the text the first time, you would hardly understand what it means, then you realize that the text itself uses symbols to conceal it's meaning. The 3 things found in the poem namely the flower, the moth, and the hungry spider show a certain realistic life event. 

Though the flower holds the moth, it does not mean that it's color blends with where it stands. The theme of the poem just says that life cannot escape problems. Life is as dangerous as a hungry spider hunting an innocent moth. You hide from life's problems. Still, it sees you.Though the poem implies that problems are unescapable, it also shows that as problems exist, so does hope.










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