Walt Whitm Poem Analysis

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He the "speaker" describes that while he is sitting there listening to a lecture of astronomer. He sees the evidence and accurate information on the columns before his eyes, as the diagrams and charts that he has to have analyzed mathematically. At the end of the astronomer lecture, everyone in the room applauded the astronomer. While he the speaker goes to the lecture room because he started, feeling exhausted and worn out. His mind wandered away, he the speaker looks up into the night sky and sees that there is magic in the air.
In Whitman's poem, Whitman uses his example of the astronomer to show the people the differences between experiential learning and academic learning. The speaker finds the astronomer lecture and stars in the

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