Spider
Somehow, spiders ended up with a bad rap. For our money, it's the legs. You know, insects are creepy enough with six, but you throw those extra two in and it just pushes it over the edge. Spiders a...
Flower
This is not just any flower—Frost chose a heal-all, a blue flower that has medicinal properties. In contrast to the ugly spider, who is designed—and has designs—to kill, kill, kill, Frost giv...
Witches' Broth
We talked about this allusion in the Detailed Summary, but Frost is giving a shout-out to Macbeth. But the big thing to remember is that the cauldron was all about combining various elements to ach...
White
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 schem...