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Spider
Title: Spider
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 251 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Spider
Walt Whitman’s poem entitled “A noiseless Patient Spider.” Describes a quiet spider creating a web. The first line of the poem reads, “A noiseless patient spider” referring to the graceful and peaceful nature of a spider. It is a creature of patience. “I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,” The speaker watches the spider carefully and sees where it stood. It was all alone, away from any human interference. The
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the spider being surrounded by nothing before he starts working. “Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.” The spider is constantly creating his web. He never stops throwing the silk out until it catches somewhere and forms a bridge with an anchor strong enough to support him.
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