1. Walt Whitman
... , we only see Whitman's idea. Perhaps the spider is simply following impulses that drive it, and it hungers realizing the web to be the method for which to satiate that hunger. In essence we are perceptually restricted in a realistic way. I believe this connects us more intimately to the character ... . The feeling is no longer personal, but transient and God-like. The poem takes the form of a social dialogue between two individuals, a discourse between the Sphinx and Oedipus. We are suspended between the two characters, listening to what each of them have to say to one another but ... ...
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