Reflection Essay 5
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman begins with a single spider brainstorming how it will build a web. To build this magnificent web, the spider must start off with a single strand of filament connecting two walls. While the speaker of the poem is watching, he gives it a human like characteristic by calling it patient.
The tone of the poem is very lonely, he describes a spider all by itself trying to start off his web. “I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding” (Line 2-3). At this point the only thing the spider can do is explore its surrounding. Comparing his soul to the spider, he describes his soul as detached from everything and they both must make
A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman begins with a single spider brainstorming how it will build a web. To build this magnificent web, the spider must start off with a single strand of filament connecting two walls. While the speaker of the poem is watching, he gives it a human like characteristic by calling it patient.
The tone of the poem is very lonely, he describes a spider all by itself trying to start off his web. “I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding” (Line 2-3). At this point the only thing the spider can do is explore its surrounding. Comparing his soul to the spider, he describes his soul as detached from everything and they both must make