“A Noiseless Patient Spider” By Walt Whitman

In this poem the author begins talking by about your typical spider and begins describing some of the things the spider is doing in order to build his web. In the first stanza he is describing how a spiders uses the webs he spins in order to get around, but also how he is standing on a promontory which is basically a high ridge. Also he then goes into further detail pf how he believes the spider’s has no worries or problems and how he has all the space he could ever need. Finally the author begins to end the poem by explaining how he is beginning to connect and actually weave his web in order to fully form it. He compares the connecting the web together is similar to constructing a bridge. The poem is sort of straight forward because it seems as though he is just explaining his observations of the spider and what he believes the spider is possibly thinking of. Also the author uses figurative language in order to compare what the spider is doing to things in real life.

I believe the author is intrigued by the spider and what he is doing. Since the author is going into great detail about this process I believe that is why for some reason it is having such an affect on him. Though this is just like any other typical spider the whole technique of spinning a web is having some sort of emotional affect on the author. I think maybe there is something going on in the author’s life because he says “Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,” so he believes that the spider’s life is carefree and filled with space and I guess ample time. That’s another reason why I believe the author is possibly suffering emotionally is because he uses the phrase “O my soul,” twice and also ends the poem on that note.