The "spider and I" conflates one person's ultimate value or position as equitable with the other... in a sense deflating the "more valuable" ego of man down to to the level of the spider since both will meet the inevitable end of life.
"Sit watching the sky" is about learning during life ("childhood" or as the initial step in a meta-Sequence). "On our world without sound" is the interior life... sound can only be made outside of the ear and the mind that interprets it. "We knit a web / to catch one tiny fly" is presenting the process we embark upon after the "learning" we did before this sequence of action/reaction... our life in a nutshell ("work a job, make a little money"). That "for our world without sound" is repeated has it's meaning in more of the "meta-Sequence" as it yes, could be that the "fly" is nourishment in the more explicit meaning, the "larger" meaning is that these things gleaned from our activated learning are meant for use within our mind... so it creates a continuous loop between the world back into the mind to venture forward again. "We sleep in the mornings / We dream of a ship that sails away/ A thousand miles away" is referencing the point near death... morning is when one awakes to the day so sleeping during it would be a sign of one's life slipping in the opposite direction of the rising morning. The "ship that sails away" is the whole of life and the world... it carries on without us after our passing. The "dream" could also be Memory... it slides away "a thousand miles away"... so far away at the moment that its movement would be indiscernible and more of an flight of fancy than an actuality... and it wouldn't matter... it would be but fantasy... one whose structure is wholly different from what we, the spider and I, are.
The "spider and I" conflates one person's ultimate value or position as equitable with the other... in a sense deflating the "more valuable" ego of man down to to the level of the spider since both will meet the inevitable end of life.
"Sit watching the sky" is about learning during life ("childhood" or as the initial step in a meta-Sequence). "On our world without sound" is the interior life... sound can only be made outside of the ear and the mind that interprets it. "We knit a web / to catch one tiny fly" is presenting the process we embark upon after the "learning" we did before this sequence of action/reaction... our life in a nutshell ("work a job, make a little money"). That "for our world without sound" is repeated has it's meaning in more of the "meta-Sequence" as it yes, could be that the "fly" is nourishment in the more explicit meaning, the "larger" meaning is that these things gleaned from our activated learning are meant for use within our mind... so it creates a continuous loop between the world back into the mind to venture forward again. "We sleep in the mornings / We dream of a ship that sails away/ A thousand miles away" is referencing the point near death... morning is when one awakes to the day so sleeping during it would be a sign of one's life slipping in the opposite direction of the rising morning. The "ship that sails away" is the whole of life and the world... it carries on without us after our passing. The "dream" could also be Memory... it slides away "a thousand miles away"... so far away at the moment that its movement would be indiscernible and more of an flight of fancy than an actuality... and it wouldn't matter... it would be but fantasy... one whose structure is wholly different from what we, the spider and I, are.