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  • jezzaando
    Aug 5 1:38 AM 2006
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    what is the significaceof the spider and the moth

  • I-Like-Rhymes
    August 5, 2006
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    Personally I think that Heal-all, being a plant noted for its herbal curative powers, is obviously a life sign. The spider and moth would appear to be a death sign.

    'In the midst of life we find death' is a possible reference.
    In the last verse Frost seems to be hinting at a divine though malignant plan but in the last line he is asking if any powerful being would bother with anything so small and so by extension would they bother with us who would be so small in their eyes?
    Jim

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