When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Walt Whitman * Track #29 On Emily Dickinson

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Walt Whitman

2015

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman

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Through this powerful poetic anecdote, Whitman suggests that the only true way to understand Nature is not scientific and methodical but intuitive and mystical. The poet can feel and understand the processes of nature when he is experiencing them, but listening to people lecture about them merely ma...

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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 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 stars.

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