A Noiseless Patient Spider

         This poem by Walt Whitman is a unique and different topic for a poem.  Talking about a spider is a metaphor to a human in the poem as a whole.  When he talks about building a web, he compares it to building a bridge along with exploring, "oceans of space."  I also noticed the structure of the poem.  It has two stanzas, but only two sentences, one in each stanza which each sentence is only broken up by commas.  Alliteration is used in both stanzas.  When he says, "forth filament, filament, filament, filament..." he also used it in the second stanza with repeating the words, "Till the..."  This poem has various types of figurative language in which the author used it effectively to relate the comparison of the spider to human behaviors and characteristics.