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This 3 page essay compares "Design" by Robert Frost and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes. No additional sources cited.
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Compiled By - properly! "Design" by Robert Frost and the
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses his craft to convey meaning about the deep issues
of life, such as the relationship of life and humanity to the Divine. However, the poems also differ, beyond the obvious differences in style and structure, as Hughes is much
more confident than Frost in his certainty that he sees his relationship to God with accuracy, while Frost questions the interactions of Divine design with the context of life on
earth. This point is made clear in the second stanza of Frosts poem, as it consists entirely of questions. In the first stanza, Frost describes a finding a fat,
white spider, sitting on a white flower, a heal-all, holding a captured moth. This image incongruently describes a scene of death in terms of white images, as white is usually
associated with purity and goodness, but the white spider has brought about the death of the white moth. This ignites speculation in the poets mind about this tiny scene of
life and death and he wonders about the conditions that led this particular spider to ascend to the top of this particular flower, where it was in a strategic position
to capture and kill the white moth. This speculation, in the second stanza, is expressed in a series of questions, which concludes with the couplet: "What but design
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