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The first poem I read was A Noisiless Patient Spider. This poem seemed to be a very deep and sort of dark poem. The first stanza talks about how a spider is patiently spinning his web. But then in the second stanza, it's almost as if Walt Whitman is saying that the reader is the spider. I think the message he is showing through that is that we are trying the spin a web of our life just like the spider spins the web so he can stay alive. The second poem I read was I Hear America Singing. I liked this poem a lot. It was a really cheerful poem and pretty much had the complete opposite tone of the Spider poem. It is talking about every day people, back in Whitman's time, doing their everyday jobs and actually being cheerful about them by singing. This shows how the people back then actually liked their jobs. Today, if I had a job, I most likely wouldn't be singing while I was working because I probably dont even like what I'm doing! This goes to show how much the world has changed since Walt Whitman's time. Overall, I enjoyed I Hear America Singing much better than A Nosiless Patient Spider. 1199752053