A Noiseless Patient Spider

How does Whitman use literary devices in his poem?

• to connect a spider’s work with the work of the soul in seeking out meaning and human connection in life

• To show the spider is lost in the ocean

• to connect the patient spider is waiting for food to eat

• To connect the soul with the spider by using repetition

How does Whitman utilize metaphors and personifications?

• to draw a connection between the spider and an insect

• to conclude that the soul of the spider is evil

• to draw a connection between the spider and the poet’s

  soul

• to draw a connection that the poets soul is lost and the spider is finding it for him

In the first stanza, what was WHitmans characteraztion of the spider?

• hopeless

• hopeful

• happy

• curious

The tone of poem is?

• hopeless

• joyful

• thoughtful

• humorous

The poem is written in a freeverse,therefor, does not include?

• any punctuation

• clear rhyme-scheme

• upper-case letters

• use of comparison

what is the spider compared to?

• a bridge

• the speakers soul

• a dog

• speakers home

which of these words best describes the speaker's feelings about himself

• happy

• angry

• lonely

• content

the repetition of which word add to the rhythm of this poem?

• well

• love

• bonny

• seas

what is the theme of the poem?

• man is always working for an end goal

• if a spider is lonely then it connects to the soul

• it is essential to clense the soul

• man is always sad in a way

the spider is personified as a

• human

• dog

• tree

• ghost