I see what you mean. Frost finding beauty in something that most would find ugly or just beneath their notice corresponds quite nicely with the ending of "Hell is the Absence of God."
I agree. The connection I can see with it is how the angels are a miraculous and divine but dangerous and destructive. For all of the good they can bring to certain individuals, they cause an equal if not greater amount of wreckage. The part of Frost's "Design" that reminds me of this is in his descriptions of the spider, moth, and the flower.
"A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth, And dead wings carried like a paper kite."
He gives the spider (which can be a poisonous, deadly insect) an innocent, appealing description. Flowers are usually delicate and beautiful, but the word froth does not bring that image to mind. The image of a paper kite brings a feeling of happiness, however he is using it to describe the wings of an insect that is dead.
I see what you mean. Frost finding beauty in something that most would find ugly or just beneath their notice corresponds quite nicely with the ending of "Hell is the Absence of God."
ReplyDeleteI agree. The connection I can see with it is how the angels are a miraculous and divine but dangerous and destructive. For all of the good they can bring to certain individuals, they cause an equal if not greater amount of wreckage. The part of Frost's "Design" that reminds me of this is in his descriptions of the spider, moth, and the flower.
ReplyDelete"A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite."
He gives the spider (which can be a poisonous, deadly insect) an innocent, appealing description. Flowers are usually delicate and beautiful, but the word froth does not bring that image to mind. The image of a paper kite brings a feeling of happiness, however he is using it to describe the wings of an insect that is dead.