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¶ … Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
Who is the speaker in this poem? What are his/her concerns/feelings? What words in the poem give you this impression of the speaker?
The speaker of "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman is the poet himself. The poet is watching a spider weave its web and muses about how this is a metaphor for his own soul seeking out new things.
Does the poem convey any particular sensory images (sight, smell, sound)? What words convey that image?
The language of the poem suggests unfurling and unreeling through the use of repetition and alliteration when describing the spider: "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, / Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them." The focus of the poem is on visual elements, as Whitman is observing the spider.
Q3. Is there a message in the poem? What words convey that message?
Whitman suggests that all beings in the interconnected web of nature are seeking out new things, new places to anchor. Whitman's...
Who is the speaker in this poem? What are his/her concerns/feelings? What words in the poem give you this impression of the speaker?
Frost himself is the speaker of the poem, or at least his poetic persona of a New Englander familiar with the land. He is older, given that the poem is a fantasy of what boys like to do: he imagines a boy like he once was bending the birch trees as the young man seeks to climb high, even while the birches eventually bend to the ground
Q2. Does the poem convey any particular sensory images (sight, smell, sound)? What words convey that image?
Two dominant images are present in the poem: the first is that of the ice storm which is the real, likely reason that the trees are bent. The second is Frost's poetic imaginations as he fantasizes about a young, lonely boy climbing the birch trees to heaven. As well as the…
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