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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 repeats the phrase “till the,” twice at the beginning of each of the last two lines of the poem. Why might he have done this?

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Meet The Creators

  • Educator Justin Moore
  • Director Jeremiah Dickey, Lisa LaBracio, Biljana Labović
  • Narrator Rives, Mahogany Browne, Joanna Hoffman

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