By showing everything white so cruel and horrific, Frost infers that darkness is everywhere, even under the hide of so called innocent people. This image does not bring the idea of life enhancing, but the image of destruction, cruelty and dependency. These three characters of death and disease are at the same place like the ingredients of witch’s broth. It is the design of the god to bring them together and it is also the dark design of nature to turn blue color heal-all flower into white, black color spider into white and the moth into white. So, in this respect, white color in this poem has been used as a symbol of decay, death and destruction. The white color of the wicked flower heal-all (an ironic name) and the white natural born killer spider bring forth the image of an actual horror scene and the innocence ness of the white color does not matter here. The white color is generally a symbol of purity and innocence, but in this poem this color has been contrasted with its meaning. Here, in the world of chaos and darkness, there is purpose and design, "if (the poet speculates whimsically) design govern in a thing so small." The poet has found a strange white variety and stranger still, attained to it a white spinner, "a snow-drop spider", holding a white moth, completing a pattern of whiteness. The "heal-all" is a common country plant supposed to have healing properties: it is almost always blue in color. Nature has already designed this interconnection. Even living thing and being survives upon each other. The nature has designed us to be interdependent. All these things of the universe are interconnected. One day, even the spider will become the food for the flower. The moth has gone there in search of the juice of heal-all flower and spider has gone there in search of the moth. The terrible reason is a dark design of death or we can say the food chain in a positive term.īy bringing all these white things together, the speaker is trying to highlight the food chain lying in the nature. All these three white creatures and flower are brought together for some terrible reason.
All these three things – spider, heal-all flower, and the moth are shown to be white. This simile has been used to indicate the white color of the moth. The poet has drawn the picture of a fat and white dimpled spider which had caught hold of a moth like the white piece of the cloth on a flower called white heal-all.
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