Walt Whitman's Spider Poetry

When I was a senior in high school, I competed in a poetry recitation competition, in which I had to choose three verses from different eras and recite them. The premier song that I chose was Walt Whitmans A Noiseless, Patient Spider. I tail assemblyt quite recall why I chose it, I think I lossed to do Oh lord! My Captain but it was too long. The most baffling part of the poem was how he wrote about a spider…Who chooses that as a topic? And more so, who finds that topic into something as deep and wind of a topic as his soul?
To be honest, I didnt get it. Not the first time I read it. Not the twenty-second time I recited it in my high school auditorium. It didnt flip sense. But what did make sense was his delectation of language and sound to make the poems impact lasting. I remember sitting in my coachs classroom, repeating occupancy after line, enunciating separately and every syllable until I was blue in the face. The hard Ts on little, promontory, it, stood, isolated, to, vacant, vast; exploring every possible authority to make each filament distinct from the other 2. In fact, the entire first stanza is full of hard Ts making the idea of the spider still intimidating and past coming in with the second stanza to make it seem indefatigable and almost endearing.




Whitman also uses repetition to his advantage, and often; markd, filament, ever, surrounded, till, O my Soul….so many repeated phrases and words that at first seemed redundant but ultimately reach out to make an impact and bring his point about the spider, and himself, across perfectly. His use of language is absolutely awe-inspiring in the second stanza, attractively pairing words to make gasp-inducing phrasing. The first time I read the poem, the language struck me most; Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing. That line really brings across the spiders struggle to offer its web, how quickly it must move and how often it might miscarry but still never gives up. And then the last two lines just come in and BAM its like a...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



If you want to get a full essay, wisit our page: write my paper