A Noiseless Patient Spide Flashcards

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About

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  • lyrical poem,
  • what it means to be an individual seeking and creating connections with the larger world
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Summary

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  • speaker notices a silent spider, standing alone on a small ledge.
  • speaker notices that the spider, in order to investigate its huge, empty environment sent out a thread
  • not getting tired
  • poem adresses speakers soul, likewise stands isolated and unconnected in a vast, open place.
  • soul keep on doing this until is finds and creats links between itself and surrounding
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Isolation and connection

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  • relationship between individual and larger world.
  • threads - personas personal work, writing, artwork.
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creation and creativity

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  • act of creation
  • sense of agency
  • intelectual exploration
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asyndeton

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  • clustering words, leaving out conjuctions.
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thread, symbol

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  • metaphor, bringing together thinks that are un like
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end stopped line

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  • pacing, reflection
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