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Q: 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?
-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 perfect silence at the starts.
A: It is a representation because the stars that surround him can represent shining beauty and the tiredness and sickness he experienced earlier within the poem can represent the hard times within a relationship.
For how this all ties in:
It is a comparison to work and relationships and how they are alike and how they differ
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