In this poem, the writer is comparing the life of a noiseless patient spider to his
             own life and his lost, detached soul. The writer may be implying that if he were more
             patient with his own life, he would not be so lost and would be able to enjoy things the
             way he sees this spider enjoying what he does: launching filament and making webs to
             In the first stanza, the writer describes how this spider can and does spin these
             webs as a pathway to experience the world, and how he is "ever tirelessly speeding them."
             The spider never gives up and never loses hope because he knows what he wants to do
             and what he has to do to survive and go on living. He is ever dedicated to what he knows
             is what he is obligated to do. The only thing he has ever known to do.
             The second stanza is left to describe how the writer's soul is detached in
             "measureless oceans of space," and meant to describe how Walt Whitman feels about his
             hopeless future. It seems he is talking directly to his soul, stating that he must "seek the
             spheres to connect his soul," and there is a need for a bridge to be formed before his soul
             can become attached to himself. He needs to fling gossamer thread to do this, just like the
             I find it very interesting that this writer is comparing the life of a spider to his own
             experiences of trying to find his soul that he sees as being surrounded by this measureless
             ocean of space. Also the word measureless being used here, I think that unmeasurable
             seems to be the more proper way to state that. And maybe the writer used measureless
             instead was to draw attention from the reader to this statement, meaning the writer saw it
             as an important line in the poem. His view of his soul.
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