Walt Whitman's A Noiseless Patient Spider

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Walt Whitman’s poem, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” is made up of two stanzas of five lines each. There is a contrast of literal and figurative language that is created by the separation of the two stanzas. When the speaker watching the spider make its web on the rock is the literal aspect, then when the speaker talks about his soul is his attempts to make connections to the world in a figurative sense. The objective of the poem is to compare the differences between the spider and the speaker's soul, Whitman does this by having the two stanzas copy each other in structure. Whitman’s use of imagery and metaphors in the poem is excellent, for instance the speaker starts by describing the contentment of watching the spider weave its web, which allows
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