HW for Whitman and Dickinson

Compare Whitman's Spider Poem to one of Dickinson's. Note similarities and differences of metaphors, language, and theme. This should be AT LEAST 6 sentences, but I imagine you will need at least 10 to properly analyze and compare the two poems. Scroll down for ED's poems and here is the text for WW's:

A Noiseless, Patient Spider
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. 

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