Question

The poet draws an analogy between the human soul and a spider in the second stanza of this poem. What is most likely analogous to the spider's threads?

Answer 1

A Noiseless Patient Spider

by Walt Whitman

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.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

Answer 2

the soul's sorrows


the soul's delights


attempts to attain insight


efforts to get material gain

Answer 3

its C