A Noiseless Patient Spider

Walt Whitman * Track #369 On Leaves of Grass

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Album Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

1855

A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

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One of Whitman’s most famous short lyrics, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” presents an extended metaphor for the cosmic connections the poet’s soul makes.

A Noiseless Patient Spider Annotated

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

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