Question:
"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
In regards to the poem "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman, answer the questions below:
What is it that makes the speaker "tired and sick" ?
Explain how "gliding" and wandered off are contrasted to the astronomer's lecture. How is the phrase "from time to time" a denial of validity of the scientific approach to the universe? What attitude I expressed by the speaker's "perfect silence" ?
Both Whitman and Cummings present emotional objections to science and scientific attempts to explain nature. How are these poets different in tone?