How does the poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider" demonstrate Transcendentalist ideals?Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider"

In Walt Whitman's "A Noiseless Patient Spider," Whitman's love for nature--an ideal founded in Transcendentalism--is communicated as the spider becomes a metaphor for the individual soul.  In its isolation, in its individuality--also a precept of Transcendentalism --the spider casts out its gossamer threads "to explore the vacant, vast surrounding."  If this line is not reminiscient of Henry David Thoreau's quest into the woods to "live deliberately" and "to learn what it had to teach," then, certainly the last stanza is.

And, like Emerson's nonconformist who must be himself, the spider/soul of Whitman stands alone, "surrounded by measureless oceans of space...seeking the spheres to connect them"--that is, "living deliberately," as Thoreau writes.