Fate is the development of events beyond the person's control. To some fate is believed to be predetermined, but too others fate is believed to be determined by yourself, that you have control over your fate. Throughout the years poets, authors as well as scientists connote their opinions on whether fate is predetermined or in control, that whether we have free will or not. Two opposing titles, “Design” a modern piece of poetry, a petrarchan sonnet and the other “Outliers” a modern day expository text. The piece “Design” by Robert Frost demonstrates how Fate is predetermined by nature through the relationship between a spider and a moth utilizing metaphors imagery and comparison. On the contrary the expository text, “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell connotes through logos, and causality.
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The opinion on whether fate and free will is determined by oneself or through something else is explicitly recognized and brought forward as the two authors connote their opinion of which side they assume is correct. In the poem “Design” what is being exerted to the audience is that free will and fate is determined by nature and that everything is set up for a reason by the usage of imagery, metaphors and the comparison of the spider, the flower and the moth. “I found the dimpled spider, fat and white, / on a heal all” (1/2) illustrating the innocence the spider has by utilizing the words “fat and white”(1) giving the innocent connotation to something that most find disturbing. “The ingredients of a witches broth” (6) connotes the idea of the something idealized as dark with the spider using the flower to catch its prey, a moth, is created to be that way.
The opinion on whether fate and free will is determined by oneself or through something else is explicitly recognized and brought forward as the two authors connote their opinion of which side they assume is correct. In the poem “Design” what is being exerted to the audience is that free will and fate is determined by nature and that everything is set up for a reason by the usage of imagery, metaphors and the comparison of the spider, the flower and the moth. “I found the dimpled spider, fat and white, / on a heal all” (1/2) illustrating the innocence the spider has by utilizing the words “fat and white”(1) giving the innocent connotation to something that most find disturbing. “The ingredients of a witches broth” (6) connotes the idea of the something idealized as dark with the spider using the flower to catch its prey, a moth, is created to be that way.