Comparison Of Sympathy And A Noiseless Patient Spider

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Sympathy and A Noiseless Patient Spider are both poems, very alike yet so different. While the poems share a common theme and deliverance, the differences in the way feelings are expressed and the speaker’s conclusion in each poem shows how truly unique these poems are from each other.
Sympathy and A Noiseless Patient spider share quite a few similarities. For example, both poems use animals as a way to convey feelings. Sympathy uses a caged bird while A Noiseless Patient Spider uses a spider spinning a web. Both analogies show a common theme of suffering. The poems are about being stuck in a place you don’t like and not being able to leave.
However, these poems do have many differences. Sympathy is also about oppression, written by an African-American

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