“Design” by Robert Frost

"And dead wings carried like a paper kite. What had that flower to do with being white,The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?What brought the kindred spider to that height,Then steered the white moth thither in the night?"

Frost wanted to expose the dark realities of life through nature. The mystery of why the moth had to be captured by the spider on the delicate heal-all shows that in the ironic design of nature, violence and sudden death happen everywhere, even in the small and insignificant things in life.