... to The American Heritage College Dictionary, is 1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: moral ambiguity. 2. Something of doubtful meaning: a poem full of ambiguities. Robert Frost's "Design" manages to fit both of these definitions, as he uses ambiguous diction to reach ... with an important question. Another important detail about the poem is the time of day that Robert finds this scene- just before morning. This is another example of an ambiguity because he is hiding darker imagery under something that is supposed to be light and cleansing. With mentions of "death and...

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... straight forward in expressing his personal belief, emotion, and attitude. However, his content of delivery goes much further in depth. Frost often applies ambiguity and paradox in stating the difficulty of something that has an absolute meaning, solution, or truth. He provides us with much evidence in analyzing complex ... the following poems: "For Once, Then something", "Fire and Ice", and "Design". 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 ...

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... with human-like qualities. Frost also uses ambiguous lines, such as "Nature's first green is gold" (1). Along with his use of symbols, and ambiguity, Frost uses paradoxical lines, like "Her early leaf's a flower'' (3) and ' 'then leaf subsides to leaf'' (5) to reinforce his point ... reader of how something remains prized but for a certain time frame. Robert Frost transitions from the natural world, to the spiritual world, using ambiguity, paradox, symbols and tone to assert his notion of the inevitable expiration of something precious.  In the first four stanzas, Frost sets...

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... same analysis of many of Frost's other "woods" poems. Lentricchia writes, "In the image of the woods Frost finds his synecdoche for nature and external reality"(87). The difficulty and ambiguity that the traveler is facing may stem from the presence of the woods that Frost loves to write about. The idea that woods and nature come together and represent man ... ...

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... appears in Frost's first book A Boy's Will (1913), talks about the preparation that Frost underwent as a writer. All of Frost's works have a level of duplicity, not to be mistaken by ambiguity, which is not the case. His works can be understood on several levels as is so proven with "Reluctance." Mr. Frost's works have an obvious simplicity to them, at least ... ...

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