In ”Design”, Robert Frost uses the death of a moth to illustrate the malevolence that lives inside of nature. Living as one with nature brings beauty and enlightenment but, as Frost depicts nature can also bring wickedness, villainy, and destruction. Frost uses the image of a “white heal-all, holding up a moth_/ Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth” to portray true innocence. This sense of innocence is immediately covered by a blanket darkness, death. The moth is in the grasps of the snow-drop spider, and cannot escape the powerful predator. Frost writes that it is, “Assorted characters of death and blight_/ Mixed ready to begin the morning right,” to show that no matter the beauties that nature holds it will always be riddled with peril.