Walt_Whitman__“A_Noiseless_Patient_Spider_“_And_Muriel_Rukey

Walt Whitman “A Noiseless Patient Spider“ And Muriel Rukeyser “Myth“ In the two poems, "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and "Myth", the poets use differing grammatical and discoursive forms such as first and third person, narration technique including dialogue and first person storytelling. It is through these methods that the authors are able to express their ideas to us in their own specific ways, manipulating mood, tone, perspective, enviornment, etc. They can give us a broader perspective utilizing third person, or they can bar us from the mind of other characters limiting us to the main character through first person. These methods give stories their own unique feel, as we shall see how. In "A Noiseless Patient Spider", Whitman uses a first person perspective to communicate the story to us. Through first person, we become Whitmans observer, watching the spider with him and through him. Our perception is limited to Whitman himself, observing the spider in it's patient work, analyzing it with his mind. For instance we are not allowed to see things through the spiders eyes, as it weaves away, unbeknowist as to what it is thinking or that which motivates it to do it's patient work, we only see Whitman's idea. Perhaps the spider is simply following through, spider, story, two, sphinx, person, oedipus, whitman, dialogue, first, perspective, narration, himself, characters, between, work, web, way, third, patient, own, one, modern, methods, man, hear, form, being, style, speaking, soul, poems, poem, must, information