"A Spider sewed at Night"

A Spider sewed at Night
Without a Light
Upon an Arc of White.

If Ruff it was of Dame
Or Shroud of Gnome
Himself himself inform.

Of Immortality
His Strategy
Was Physiognomy.


Analysis:

As a central purpose I would say this poem is about creation. The speaker might try to relate to God's creations, and how his power to create comes from himself. Based on this the speaker tries to compare this to a spider and how he creates his masterpiece of a spider web compared to how God created his masterpiece. One thing they have in common is that they started off from nothing, and they both ended up creating something meaningful. The speaker ends the first stanza in describing the beginning as the Arc of White. That can be related to a blank paper, or in other words; starting of from nothing. The last stanza tries to get a sense of God's eternity, and how he was just decided to be the head of all beautiful creations that he built out of practically nothing.