One poem that shows Walt Whitman best as a romantic poet is 'The Noiseless Patient Spider', which includes great use of language and has a real flow of words. ... Also the link with nature in 'I hear America singing' is similar to 'The noiseless Patient Spider' because it is 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. ... Walt Whitman used several techniques in his...

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In the two poems, "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and "Myth", the poets use differing grammatical and discoursive forms such as first and third person, narration technique including dialogue and first person storytelling. ... In "A Noiseless Patient Spider", Whitman uses a first person perspective to communicate the story to us. ... 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 allowed to see things through the spiders eyes, as it weaves away, unbeknowist as to what it is thinking or that which m...

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On this day, August 6, 1945, all their lives would be affected in just a noiseless flash. ... The blast was so great that part of the ceiling had fallen on the patients, beds were overturned, windows had blown in and cut people. Blood was splattered everywhere, many of the patients were screaming, and many more lay dead. ...

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Friends are an essential part of a person maturing. 1 A noiseless patient spider, 2 I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, 3 Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, 4 It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, 5 Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. 6 And you O my soul where you stand, 7 Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, 8 Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, 9 Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, ...

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Henchard's fate has bought Farfrae to Casterbridge to signify and exhibit to Henchard how his fate would have been if he were more of a patient and appreciative man. ... " mournful phases slow, noiseless, and dark voice of desolation the corpse of a man." ...

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• Grade Level: High School