Sociological Criticism Of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless, Patient Spider Poem
In the poem, A Noiseless, Patient Spider, Walt Whitman, compares his soul metaphorically to a noiseless, patient, little spider on a headland - a narrow and rocky piece of land outstretched towards the ocean. The spider, whilst referring to his soul, reels over its webs leaving a track on its immensely wide surrounding by constantly weaving as it goes. Regardless of the compromising situation in which it sits and the challenges it encounters in the ‘vast surroundings,’ in which it dwells, it is relentless in its quest ahead just as the poet’s persona.
In the following stanza, the poet’s comparison of the little spider to his innate being or his soul is expanded, whereby
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Such an approach on criticism takes on a social content analyses of a literary piece of work, in which its perceived values as a particular work of art, in this case the poem, implicitly or explicitly expresses.
During Walt Whitman’s life, American patriotism during the nineteenth century discussed the notion of American history with regards to cosmic philosophy. It came almost innate to them that change and progress was through God's design. Thus, what was America's great growth in its historical process was a by-product of this glorious divine design. Whitman, in this outstanding piece experienced this cosmic realisation, and was ‘mythological’ and at the forefront steering it as a literature guru. His personal life spilled over to his poetry which enthused his readers more into his personality.
Did other achievements of Walt Whitman’s influence his poetry? Such a man portrayed a philosophical or mystic mind, and may have given rise to themes breaking literary boundaries as with ‘A Noiseless, little