Design

Perhaps echoing the words of Hamlet, "Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so, Frost's superbly constructed sonnet, "Design," underscores the observation that perception often...

In "Design," Robert Frost's general question seems a rather skeptical one: Just how involved is the Creator with his creations? In other words, is there truly a "design" to all that is in the...

Central to this poem is the way that the spider, the flower and the moth are symbols of death, destruction and decay. Notice how Frost describes them as "Assorted characters of death and blight"...

"Design" is a sonnet by Robert Frost that like many of Frost's works reflects on simple, natural phenomena in a way that illuminates profound philosophical and human issues. The surface level of...

Robert Frost's "Design" illuminates the speaker's reflection on a spider's web. As a side note, given it is proper to denote the narrator of the poem as being the one to attribute feelings to, one...

The broadest philosophical view in this sonnet is that in order there is meaning. This is communicated through the poem's final couplet, which underscore the meaning of design in large and small...

Normally, the colour white is associated with life and innocence. In much of Christian iconography, white is the colour of purity, used for christening gowns, altar linens, Easter, etc. Darkness...

First, one must understand what tone is. According to Brooklyn Academics' Literary Term page, tone is defined by the following: the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers. By...

Modernist writers often presented the world in which we live as a pretty terrible place. They comprehensively abandoned the valorization of nature so beloved of the Romantics to embrace a much more...

Robert Frost’s brief poem titled “Design” does not use blank verse, if only because the poem rhymes. The usual definition of “blank verse” involves unrhymed lines of ten syllables, with most even...

Various parallels exist between the “real” situation Robert Frost depicts in his poem “Design” and the ways the speaker presents that situation in the poem. The speaker claims to have seen a...

In this poem by Robert Frost, he brings out questions that seem to resonate through literature of every time period. He is contemplating life and death, good and evil, and their origins. Upon...

You can compare this poem to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which is set in nature: a dark, snowy night in the woods near a farmhouse. Both poems use sensory imagery, which...