Comparison Of The Flea, And A Noiseless Patient Spider

“A Poison Tree” by William Blake, “The Flea” by John Donne, and “ A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman, all three very differing poems, yet all have one major common connection. They use nature as a comparing factor for their outstanding themes. William uses the metaphor of an apple tree to capture his theme of unspoken anger, John uses a flea as a metaphor for love and sex, and Walt depicts the soul through the use of imagery of a spider spitting its web. The use of nature in a comparison is substantial, due to the fact that nature is perfect, yet also differentiating in all aspects, as do people. In “A Poison Tree”, Blake does a great job using the apple as an analogy of his unspoken anger. When you think of an apple ,in real world