Question

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;

Answer 1

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture­room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night­air, and from time

Answer 2

What I wrote and got a good grade is:
I explained his view of the lecture. he listens to the astronomer and he became sick and tired. He is a Romantic writer in which he believes in imagination and emotion rather than reason and intellect. Romanticism writers rejected the idea of neoclassicism.

Answer 3

explain how he rather use his imagination than look at charts and diagrams

Answer 4

you are a life saver, this test it hard. lol

Answer 5

It is haha English is a hard subject b/c you have to think about the question and answer in your opinion and hope it is what the teacher is looking for.

Answer 6

What will help you get a good grade on the short answers is to use quotes from the text.