A poetic experiment: Walt Whitman, interpreted by three animators - Justin Moore
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Take a journey through Walt Whitman's poem 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' with the help of three animators who each used a different animation style to bring this beautiful poem to life.
Whitman uses alliteration (the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected or adjacent words) in this poem. Read the poem and list the phrases that contain alliteration below. Why would a writer use alliteration?
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- Educator Justin Moore
- Director Jeremiah Dickey, Lisa LaBracio, Biljana Labović
- Narrator Rives, Mahogany Browne, Joanna Hoffman
