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‘Design’ by Robert Frost is a fourteen-line sonnet that is separated into two stanzas. The first is an octet, meaning it contains eight lines (usually further divided into quatrains, sets of four lines). The second stanza is a sestet or set of six lines.
Robert Frost's "Design," first published in a 1922 anthology of American poetry, reflects on the argument that the complexity of the world proves that a supernatural creator (i.e., God) must have designed things.
Design. Robert Frost. 1874 –. 1963. 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.
3 Νοε 2023 · "Design" is a fourteen-line sonnet which explores the notion that nature and the whole universe is designed by a malevolent intelligence. It is based on the everyday observation of a spider on a flower holding up a dead moth but essentially the poem is playing around with theological argument.
“Design” is an atypical Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet, because though its octave (the first eight lines) sets forth a situation, and the sestet (the final six lines) reacts to it, Robert...
Design is one of the best known of Frost's sonnets. It shows Frost's poetic qualities compressed in one small poem. Unlike many of his other sonnets in which meditative quality reigns rampant, the present one, along with 'On a Bird Singing in its Sleep' is a fable in miniature.
This poem takes the form of a Italian (or Petrarchan) Sonnet it consists of an ABBAABBA rhyming octave; the sestet is in a ACAACC form – the Italian sonnet allows for variations such as this...
