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A Noiseless Patient Spider

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Walt Whitman expresses his thoughts on the isolation and spirituality of the human soul through various diction, structure and imagery. In the poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman illustrates his visions of a soul and its parallelism to a spider. In the title of the poem, the “Patient” shows personification also potentially foreshadowing the interconnectedness with the soul later in the poem. Furthermore, the “Spider” component of the title can be interpreted as imagery for a spider that waits silently but patiently. Whitman writes:” …a little promontory it stood isolated” (2) This represents a theme of isolation because of the imagery based on the description of being particularly empty and vast. The connection between both stanzas
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