Read and analyze "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman.
Subject
Writing
Question Description
Read and analyze "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman. What Romantic ideas does it express, and how does the structure of the poem reinforce the meaning? ESSAY question. Requires 2+ paragraphs
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time
look'd up in he perfect silence at the stars