Question

Reading this poem from the first stanza to the second could BEST be summarized as seeing a combination of which two styles?

A) realism and modernism.
B) modernism and postmodernism.
C) realism and transcendentalism
D) colonialism and transcendentalism.


Passage:

A Noiseless, Patient Spider

by Walt Whitman

A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them--ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,--seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form'd--till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

Answer 1

I choose option A....

Answer 2

Answer:

C, realism and transcendentalism