This week in AP lit class, we started focusing on the element of tragedy. Tragedy is a type of literature in which extremely sad events happen to the characters in the story. We made two blog posts about it already, so if you want some insight on that you can go to my tragedy blog. Another thing we did was we started to analyze and explicate "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman. The poem has a lot of metaphorical meanings to it, like many other poems we have read in this class. I enjoyed it, but I definitely had some difficulty understanding it right off the bat. I think that happens to me with every poem except for "Pathedy of Manners".
Walt Whitman was a very famous poet who wrote only one piece of literature. His one book was a large book of all of the poems he wrote. It was an extremely famous and well renowned book because of his vast amount of poems and skill as a writer. "A Noiseless Patient Spider" was very interesting to me because he used a literal meaning to compare a figurative meaning to. He used a spider as a literal base and went off of it when describing his soul figuratively, I found that very interesting.