In the poem “Design,” Frost describes a scene of nature through paradox and ambiguity. He utilized a spider, a moth and heal-alls as three different characters in depicting the scene. The starting point for the speaker's thought is what he perceives as a coincidence; a white spider sits on a white flower holding up a white moth. In Western culture, the color white typically associates with goodness, purity, and innocence. The language of the poem suggests that these connotative links - the spider is "dimpled" as well as "fat and white,"(Line 1) refers to a newborn baby. Therefore, a spider is being described as a symbolism of purity and innocence

In the poem “Fire and Ice,” Frost compares and contrasts the two destructive forces: fire and ice. In the first two lines of the poem he presents two options for the end of the world: an end by fire or an end by ice. Frost depicts, "From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire."(Line 3-4) It is paradox because at first he takes the position of fire which may represent desire. However, in the next stanza Frost makes the case for the destructive force of ice which relates to hate. "I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice, is also great."(Line 6-8) These few verses demonstrate that he can't make a stand for his own belief and keeps jumping from one side to another. This poem is also ambiguous because Frost wants to express not only the meaning from the appearance of the poem, which states that fire and ice can destroy the world, but also the guilt of the human sins. The poem provides readers with a view of hate as something that causes people to become rigid, unmoving and cold. Fire, a symbol of passion, consumes and destroys quickly while leaving ashes in its wake. Ice, or hatred, destroys more slowly. It causes object to become so immovable that they crack from the pressure it has created, thus leaving split fragments that once were whole. From the views Frost depicts in this poem it would be fair to extrapolate that he believes the world will end in violent war for coveted things. However, Frost could also conceive of an end of the world caused by people becoming too rigid, unmoving and set in their ways and ideas that the world breaks apart into factions.

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