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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 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 ...
The second half of the poem moves away from the simple to the point language used to describe the astronomer’s lecture. Whitman uses more elegant, somewhat flowery, words. This shift in tone and meaning at the end of a poem, commonly referred to as “the turn” in literary analysis, is...
I have been teaching physics and astronomy at Northwestern University since 1989 (thus I qualify as the "learned astronomer" in the poem), and I felt that surely there was room on the web for a few pages situated firmly between these extremes. This site is the result. It discusses the ...
This article analyzes When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, which we consider to be an example of a poetry picturebook, a kind of text belonging to the field of children's literature which is characterized by the interaction between a poetic text and a sequence of illustrations. In this ...
Astronomer[əˈstrɒnəmə(r)]astronaut[ˈæstrənɔ:t] 7. I cheered up immediately and floated weightlessly around in our spaceship cabin watching the earth become smaller and the moon larger. cheer up 欢呼;喝彩;感到高兴;使高兴。如: The crowd cheered up when they ...
the simple and the learned; the most sublimated astronomer, and the idlest school-boy, throughout their lives, continue to speak of the rising and setting of the sun, moon and stars, as if these were the real movements of the celestial orbs, and as if the earth, on whose surface we ...
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 ...
There was even more evidence of Homer’s genius to come. By transposing Odysseus’s journey home from Troy from the ‘wine dark’ seas to the metaphorical ‘wine-dark’ skies, it enabled the poet-astronomer to construct an annual luni-solar calendar system in which days and months were rec...
5.(Biography)Francis.1859–1907, British poet, best known for the mystical poemThe Hound of Heaven(1893) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...