As rebels of the industrial era, Romantic poets cultivated their reverence for the natural world, and shared the reverence in their poems. In "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", Whitman narrates his experience of depressed by the astronomer’s lecture and pleased again by looking at the stars himself. In “324” Dickinson tells within nature she can hear from God and go to heaven without the need of going to church. Though they use different poetic devices, they both express the similar perspective, the awe of nature.
Two poems both involve contrast between being in nature and being somewhere officially important to express the perspective. “The mystical most night-air” contrast with "the lecture-room” in “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer";
Two poems both involve contrast between being in nature and being somewhere officially important to express the perspective. “The mystical most night-air” contrast with "the lecture-room” in “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer";