A Noiseless Patient Spider By Walt Whitman

Summary: A Noiseless Patient Spider is about a man that watches a spider shooting a web and imagines it compared to his soul.

Section One:

A spider is on a rock in the middle of some kind of water, probably a pond or stream
The spider is all alone, with nothing around it; it shoots webs out all around itself

Section Two:

The narrator says his soul is surrounded by nothing, it thinks and looks for something to connect to
The soul continues to look for something to hold onto until it is found

Other Notes:

The narrator notices the spider randomly shoots its web until it hits something solid
Whitman decides that the soul acts much like the spider; it is looking for something it can grasp that is solid and will hold strong