The document summarizes Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider". It provides background on Whitman as an American poet and details when the poem was published. It then analyzes some of the lines from the poem, comparing a spider spinning its web to a human soul venturing out. The poem depicts a spider standing alone on a promontory and launching silken threads to explore the empty space around it, similar to how the human soul stands alone yet seeks connections.
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A Noiseless Patient Spider by Chethan B Manjunath
1. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider- Part -2
By,
Chethan B Manjunath
2. A Noiseless Patient Spider
About the Poet
A Noiseless Patient
Spider" is a short poem
by Walt Whitman. It
was published in the
year 1891 edition of
Leaves of Grass.
3. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider
Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and
journalist. His works are known for the influence of
transcendentalism and realism.
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a short poem by Walt
Whitman. It was published in an 1891 edition of Leaves of
Grass.
4.
5. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider
The poem compares a spider to a human.
A spider spins silken thread to span a emptiness.
Line 1
A noiseless patient spider,
Line 2
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
6. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider
Line 3-5
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of
itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
7. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider
Line 6
And you O my soul where you stand.
Line 7
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
8. Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient
Spider
Line 8
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to
connect them,
Lines 9-10
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.
