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| I. the ocean came gently Whispering, I love you travell’d a long way fear’d I might lose you the last words dying in the rolling ocean like a single drop “came” miraculous grateful to have last moments part life and fear entering into the afterlife noiseless, patient I mark’d a little promontory, isolated Mark’d vacant, vast surrounding II. It launch’d forth unreeling tirelessly speeding Noiseless a spider on a rock small It weaves a complex, beautiful web pays close attention completes its task By the end importance clear lines open-ended. its web a metaphor for soul but means isn’t clear. 9.6.22 23 lines Redaction Poetry The Daily Poem  2-Time WDC Quill Winner: Best Poetry Collection, 2020 and 2021    Redacted From: Walt Whitman, From Poetry Analysis Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me, Whispering, I love you, before long I die, I have travell’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you, For I could not die till I once look’d on you, For I fear’d I might afterward lose you. In this lesser-known piece, Walt Whitman describes the last words of a narrator’s dying lover and his assurances they will find one another again in the rolling ocean. The poem begins with the speaker telling his reader that someone, like a single drop from the ocean, “came” to him. This is something that seems miraculous to the speaker. He is grateful to have found someone to spend his last moments with. He is part of the circle of life and death, and by the end of the poem, the fear associated with entering into the afterlife has dissipated. 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. In ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider,’ the speaker spends the poem watching a spider. It is on a rock overlooking the ocean. Although it is small, the impact on the area and the speaker is clear. It weaves a complex, beautiful web. The speaker pays close attention to how, string by string, the spider completes its task. By the end of the poem, the larger importance of the text as a metaphor is made clear. The final lines conclude the poem, but they are very open-ended. He says that he sees the spider and its web as a metaphor for his soul, but what exactly he means by this isn’t clear. |
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