Symbol Analysis
For a dark poem, Frost sure picked a weird color to focus on. Actually, that's kind of the point. He contrasts the light innocence of white with the potentially evil design behind their color scheme.
- Lines 1-3: In the first three lines, he repeats the word "white" three times. The spider, the flower and the moth are all white. As readers, we are supposed to wonder at this coincidence.
- Line 9: The first question Frost asks refers to the color of the flower. Why does the flower (and this whole scene) have to be white? Does it mean something, or is it just coincidence?