The poem depicts a guy who goes and looks at swans over the course of nineteen years. The first stanza talks of his walk over to the pond or lake noticing the trees are “in their autumn beauty”(1) and the woodland paths are dry”(2) and finally seeing the “nine-and-fifty swans”(6). He tells us it is his “nineteenth autumn”(7) here and before he could finish counting the swans they “scatter wheeling”(11). After all the years he has noticed “all’s changed”(15) in his life. He then explains how although much has changed in his life the swans “hearts have not grown old”(22) unlike him. The final stanza expresses that one day the swans will leave and it leaves him thinking “among what rushes will they build”(27) and where will they fly.
The sonnet depicts Robert Frost’s views on the creation of life. The opening line explains Robert Frosts first observation of a “white” and “dimpled” spider sitting on a “white” plant and holding up a “white” moth it is about to eat (1,2,3). He explains that they are all there “mixed” together and placed purposefully (5). He then questions the state of the spider for “being white” and why another force changed it from being “wayside blue”(9,10). He asks what “brought” and “steered” the spider and moth together at this point in the night (11,12). He finally ends the poem asking what could’ve caused this “design of darkness” other than a supernatural designer but then reassures himself that it could have just been a coincidence (13).
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