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Walt Whitm Poem Analysis

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In the life that we live our emotions expect a reaction. After we make our actions, we get results. We do not know what affect the future will have on us. Which is why we must make wise decisions; but wise decisions are made through patience and power of individuality. The adult world world many of the youth and young will soon face, is relative to water. It is so for, if you blindly and carelessly choose to make the wrong decisions you will drown. It takes a thought process of thinking and management. “Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding.” This quote marks the biggest ideal of the poem. Whitman is using the spider as metaphor of a person. Whitman shows that the person is being patient. Patience is what the spider or the person will have to use to create their own destiny. …show more content…

If you cannot put control to your wants and needs, you have no strong state of priorities. “Surrounded, detached in measureless oceans of space, ceaselessly musing, venturing.” Whitman is making a compare and contrast between the two lives you can choose in life. “Surrounded, detached in measures oceans of space. . .” If you do not put power over yourself, you will not fulfill your purpose, you will not fill up your life with your wants; then, you will just live in meaningless space.” In the quote your life is a ocean. Your ocean will be pure space without fulfilling your power. Without power the spider or person would never survived to make it to their true ocean. Musing means to be a state of reflection or deep thought. If you make plans for yourself, and muse on those plans; then you will live a great adventure. You will live a great adventure, because you did what you needed to do for yourself. After you have fulfilled your needs, you then have what you want. Once you have done that, you have showed true power. He who is powerful, is he who can govern his passions, needs, and

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