In one of Whitman’s poems ( “A Noiseless, Patient Spider”) Walt connects the life of a human to the spider by saying how the spider “ventures” through the “vacant, vast surroundings…” He also writes about the “thread” that connects the spider to the world and humans being connected with the “bridge” that one will build with the spheres of life.” In the second stanza’s last line Whitman talks about his soul which is individualism and the works of men working with gossamer thread and spider using filament.
