Comparing The Raven And A Noiseless Patient Spider

In “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe the raven symbolizes the grief, darkness, and loneliness that the author is experiencing. In “The Lamb” & “The Tyger” by William Blake the animals in these poems serve as extreme opposites and questions the creator of each animal. In “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman the spider represents the soul’s journey to find one’s self in order to build a stable life. In all of these poems animals are represented as an entity different from their original or obvious figure.
In the first place, the speaker is in a state of grief in “The Raven” and the Raven symbolizes closure or further hopelessness. The author discovers that the raven repeats the phrase “nevermore” and begins to ask questions knowing what the raven’s response will be. When the speaker says, “Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore-”, (Poe, 731) he is stating that the phrase has no meaning to him; however, he continues to ask the Raven questions pertaining to his own grief. The author decides to use the Raven as

In “The lamb” the short poem describes the lamb’s wool and soft voice as a representation of a meek child. In “The Tyger” the poem outline the beauty and fear the tiger gives people and challenges if the same creator could have made the lamb and the tiger because they are so different. The author asks, “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”(Blake, 691) which probably means that whomever made the tiger would have to have a different outlook on life that he or she could create such a beautiful monster. In contrast to the lamb which looks pretty and soft and acts the same way. Whereas, a tiger is majestically beautiful but is also an unsafe predator who hunts meek animals in order to