Thinking activity : Robert Frost 's " Design "

Thinking activity : Comparison and interpretation two different pictures on the basis of the poem " Design " By Robert Frost. 

Design is a fourteen line sonnet. It is also called an Italian sonnet also known as a Petrarchan Sonnet. This kind of Sonnet is composed of two stanzas. The first eight lines make up one stanza while the second stanza is six lines. 

Two Different pictures interpretation : 

1) Nature : 

                  

 This is the picture of Nature which is far away from reality.  This picture is called a design of nature because everything has drown in particular shape. For example the mountains are in shape of triangle , sun is in the round shape also the trees and house drows  in particular shape. So all this thing design and that way it drows. Also this picture filled with so much positivity. It shows the positive nature of Nature. It is far away from reality. It is also design of life. Nature seen here as a life giver.

2) Design by Robert Frost : 

This picture is make on the poem "Design ". It shows the  reality of Nature. It is based on the everyday observation of spider on white flower holding up a dead moth. The back ground of white flower called a heal all.  

      

Frost description is filled with gothic imagery including the fact that all three elements the spider , flower and moth are white. White usually stands for something virtuous and pure but here it describes as not purity but deadly pallor. It is story of moth death. It is not design of life but death. 

   

White spider suggest that even within evil there is goodness and purity. While the moth represents the spider 's prey. Medicinal flower the heal all suggest that life  is full of both good and evil. Moth and spider become the symbol of humanity. They both are product of natural forces not spiritual design. Spider holds dead moth is also a part of natural food chain. It is also a reality of life that life and death is a part of Nature. 

  On the other hand it is not a natural that on white flower the white spider holds the white moth. So all this thing is rarely found. It is strange thing that all this things seeing  at one place. So it may be the design of creator to put these things  all together. It also like a artificial design that it happens  forcefully. 

Also this poem shows the reality of Nature. Poet described the negative side of nature. Here moth shown as a hero and spider shows as a villian. The image becomes horrified and ugly. It is design of Death. Design of Darkness.