feelings about the apperence of the spider, flower and moth in the poem. As the poem unfolds all of

these aspects come together so you can fully understand the theme of the poem.

The poem begins with a description of a scene. The scene takes place at night (line 12)

and involves three characters: A spider, a moth, and a flower. In line one, Frost describes the

spider. The spider is like any other, “fat” and “dimpled” (line 1). However, unusually, the spider is

white. Atypically, Frost has given a color associated with purity and innocence to the spider. In line

two, Frost describes the flower. Like the spider, the flower, a heal all, is given the unfitting color,

white. The spider is on the heal-all, holding up a moth, presumably one, which the spider killed. In

line three, Frost elaborates on the moth. The moth, like the spider and heal-all, is white. Frost

compares the appearance and texture of the moth to satin, a delicate material similar to

between the creator he observes in this situation and the god that the world reveres.

In the second stanza, Frost’s “Quarrel with the world” is most visible. In lines nine and ten,

“snow drop” spider; the flower, compared to a “froth;” and finally the moth with its delicate dead

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