This week I learned a lot from the poem of the week. The poem was titled, A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman. The story was only ten lines long and two stanzas, but gave a strong message to its audience. The poem talks about the speaker comparing his soul to a spider. Through apostrophe and comparison, the reader can feel a sense of jealousy from the speaker towards the spider. The first stanza talks about the spider being able to make a home, its web, anywhere. Behind a door or in a vast amount of open space, a spider is still able to settle and be successful. The second stanza talks about the speaker's soul and how the speaker tries to latch on to places and find a place to call home, but is unsuccessful.
I found this poem to be easy to connect to in the way of finding a place where you belong. By being a senior in high school and starting college, I think that all twelfth graders can agree that finding the perfect fit, as in a college, is hard when you have so many directions to turn. The poem reads, "Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, (8)". I picture this to be like me throwing myself at different colleges and universities trying to find the perfect place, but I cannot settle.
Last week our class talked about defining success not as a broad statement that everyone can mold to, but defining success as your own personal goals. The speaker in the poem wants to be just like the spider in the way that he can put himself anywhere and be successful. But maybe that isn't what is most important. Finding a place to be and being successful under your conditions is more important than fitting into a mold.
I found this poem to be easy to connect to in the way of finding a place where you belong. By being a senior in high school and starting college, I think that all twelfth graders can agree that finding the perfect fit, as in a college, is hard when you have so many directions to turn. The poem reads, "Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, (8)". I picture this to be like me throwing myself at different colleges and universities trying to find the perfect place, but I cannot settle.
Last week our class talked about defining success not as a broad statement that everyone can mold to, but defining success as your own personal goals. The speaker in the poem wants to be just like the spider in the way that he can put himself anywhere and be successful. But maybe that isn't what is most important. Finding a place to be and being successful under your conditions is more important than fitting into a mold.