... a very romanticised idea to give animals 'human like' thoughts and feelings and to easily integrate them with the human way of life. I think the poem "The Noiseless Patient Spider" was written because Whitman was thinking of a bridge. Spiders can make bridges for themselves. It makes me feel in between beauty and ugliness; ugliness because of the image created in my head. When ... Whitman used the verbs: "musing", "venturing", "throwing", "seeking", it kid of gives an image of a spider that might seem kind of raged. Beauty is also what is seen in this picture, also. It can be seen and h...

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... give stories their own unique feel, as we shall see how. In "A Noiseless Patient Spider", Whitman uses a first person perspective to communicate the story to us. Through first person, we become Whitmans observer, watching the spider with him and through him. Our perception is limited to Whitman himself, observing the spider in it's patient work, analyzing it with his mind. For instance we are not ... through the spiders eyes, as it weaves away, unbeknowist as to what it is thinking or that which motivates it to do it's patient work, we only see Whitman's idea. Perhaps the spider is simp...

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