Mini-Essay:  Edward Taylor, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" 
Dr. Jim Wohlpart 

The English Concentration 
in the Liberal Studies Degree 


INTERPRETATION––In two concise yet detailed and well organized paragraphs, interpret the following passage, explaining 

  • the theme/purpose of the work that the quote comes from in its historical context 
  • and what the passage means (interpret the important symbols, images, or references).  
 

"This Frey seems thus to us
 Hells Spider gets
His intrails Spun to whip Cords thus
 And wove to nets
  And sets.

"To Tangle Adams race
 In’s Stratigems
To their Destructions, Spoil’d made base
 By venom things
  Damn’d Sins..."
 



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