Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark weavers. She was an Ancient Greek weaver who challenged Athena, the Goddess of Weaving, to a duel; Arachne who wove blasphemous images in her tapestry to mock the gods, won but was punished for her hubris by Athena, who destroyed her work with a crack of a lightning bolt. Arachne was so distraught, she hanged herself. Athena felt guilty, so she gave her eternal life in the form of the world's first spider, doomed to weave in the shadows forever, never more in the light. The scene dissolves into Queens High School where Peter Parker is presenting an oral report
A Noiseless Patient Spider A Noiseless Patient Spider "A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a short poem by Walt Whitman, published in an 1891 edition of "Leaves of Grass". It was originally part of his poem "Whispers of Heavenly Death", written expressly for "The Broadway, A London Magazine", issue 10 (October 1868), numbered as stanza "3". It was retitled "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and reprinted as part of a larger cluster in "Passage to India" (1871). The poem's most prevalent literary technique is imagery; it is difficult to find even one line that does not contain a vivid image. The first, and one of the