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