An early version of this poem ended with the speaker asking "Do I use the word aright?", and Randall Jarrell observed that the Latin root of this sonnet's word "appall" means "to make white.
An early version of this poem ended with the speaker asking "Do I use the word aright?", and Randall Jarrell observed that the Latin root of this sonnet's word "appall" means "to make white." The three main beings in this poem are compared to "the ingredients of a witches' broth," and are described as "assorted characters of death and blight." Opening with a depiction of a white spider killing a white moth on a white heal-all, its sestet asks what "steered the white moth thither in the night?" and wonders whether the title concept "govern[s] in a thing so small." FTP, identify this sonnet by Robert Frost which examines the teleological argument.
An early version of this poem ended with the speaker asking "Do I use the word aright?", and Randall Jarrell observed that the Latin root of this sonnet's word "appall" means "to make white.
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