Robert Frost's poem "Design" and Emily Dickinson's "Apparently with no surprise" have many similarities and differences. The qualities that make them different are the special touches put in place by the poets to make their poems unique. Each poem is written using an accomplished technical skill. While each writer uses many different techniques, the themes and message conveyed in each are the same.

"Design" communicates a morbid tone by using words like rigid, death, blight, and dead. Frost's poem is a sonnet, with an octet and a sestet. The octet is used as an exposition, in which the speaker identifies to the reader that the he has found a spider, sitting on a flower, eating a moth. The use of the color white, symbolic of innocence and purity, contradicts the images of death and morbidity. In line seven, alliteration is used in "snowdrop spider" and "flower like a...