"In White": Frost's Early Version Of Design Poem by Robert Frost
"In White": Frost's Early Version Of Design
A dented spider like a snow drop white
On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of lifeless satin cloth -
Saw ever curious eye so strange a sight? -
Portent in little, assorted death and blight
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth? -
The beady spider, the flower like a froth,
And the moth carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The blue prunella every child's delight.
What brought the kindred spider to that height?
(Make we no thesis of the miller's plight.)
What but design of darkness and of night?
Design, design! Do I use the word aright?
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wow did a Bing search on Heal-all, saw pictures it is a beautiful plant..this created better visuals and made the poem more beautiful..thanks
Oh, how I love Robert Frost and his unique flow and wording of his poems. Beautiful, as always.
Once again: Congratulations on being chosen as The Modern Poem Of The Day! A finest poem about natural Design
A very cozy poem by Robert Frost, so loveliest put into poem,5 Stars for this cute poem, crystal clearly conveyed. I have enjoyed enormously. Congratulations for the nearest of kin of Robert Frost. A beautiful Design.
What had that flower to do with being white, The blue prunella every child's delight. What brought the kindred spider to that height? the design of the darkness of night.... wonderful. tony
That's life, that's nature. A well written poem by Robert Frost the great observer of nature.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Frost’s brilliance emerges in the difference between this and the final version. In Design he changes the first line to ‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white.’ ‘Lifeless’ becomes ‘vivid’(L.3) and the fourth line ‘Assorted characters of death and blight.’ ‘Snow-drop’ replaces ‘beady’ in L.7, and the 8th line now reads ‘And dead wings carried like a paper kite.’ Each substitution is more realistic, convincing and ominous, foreshadowing Design’s conclusion: What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appal? - If design govern in a thing so small.
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