Design - by Robert Frost

I really liked this poem--It was, different. It was still somewhat linked to the theme of death that most of the poems we have studied did, but it was in a more mysterious and interesting context. I liked that it's theme wasn't as blunt as other pieces of work we have studied. Instead of words like "death, dying, die, die, die...", it was more like "kindred", "thither", "darkness". All words that helped the author create more suspense for his audience, leading up to what we all know was death for poor Mr. Moth, but still this poem forces you to brainstorm and idealize more openly.

Another aspect of the poem that I really liked was the "heal-all", which is a plant that usually has violet-blue flowers and is known as a source of healing. I enjoyed the symbol of the flower because it helped showed one of Frost's main themes of evil existing everywhere. You have this poor innocent flower who is, hypothetically speaking, is watching this innocent moth dying a slow painful death, and can't do anything about it.

I think Frost had a hidden meaning by the whole set-up of this poem as well. What I mean is, what kind of a coincidence would it be for all three things, the moth, spider, and flower to be in the same place, at the same time. I also think that Frost was trying to say that there is a higher power that overlooks every aspect of all of our lives. Either that or he just likes to torture my brain into trying to figure out what the hell he means. That, we will never know!