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- Title
"A thing so small": The Nature of Meter in Robert Frost's "Design."
- Authors
Murphy, James
- Abstract
This article presents the author's analysis on the poem "Design," by Robert Frost. According to the author, "Design" is poem about interpretation. In poem's last line: If design govern in a thing so small, has an interpretation that brings science and literature together. He states that Frost has successfully applied the role meter in verse and anticipated generative metrics account of iambic pentameter to clarify the meaning of the poem. Included are the verse of the poem with the template of iambic pentameter.
- Subjects
DESIGN (Poem : Frost); FROST, Robert, 1874-1963; POETRY (Literary form); INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); IAMBIC pentameter; VERSIFICATION; POETICS; LITERATURE &; science; MODERN poetry
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2007.0044