A Noiseless Patient Spider

This poem uses many metaphors in order to get his ideas across about how everything has more than one vast meaning. A spider is often never thought as a meaningful being of life, we can kill spiders without feeling guilty and never think about it twice. Humans on the other hand, have that ability to know they are meaningful, but people do not usually understand that they are important to others. Many people feel like a part of darkness in space, and nothing more. Mostly people who have experienced a stroke or some other illnesses have the same feeling of not knowing where their bodies begin and where they end. They feel as if space itself has expanded and that is what they are. This poem makes me relate to that feeling that i've been learning about in my other classes. The poet Walt Whitman after resesarching was known for having a stroke and having an amazing medical team and family to help him back to a healthier state. This was an amzing discovery for me because i believe that may have been a motive for writing such an unexplaned poem. Also in this poem the word filament was used in repetition, i looked up the word, and filamentation is anomalous growth such as E. Coli, this definition may not have been what the poet was meaning to get across, but i believe this poem had a complete medical, symbolic message. And Gossamer thread is a spider silk! just some crazy facts that ended up falling together that i wonder if other students figured out this same meaning, because i am 99.9% sure now that this is what the poet was trying to express.