The Natural World
The poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman is talking about him listening to an educated astronomer lecture using his proofs, figures, columns, charts, diagrams and how to add, divide, and measure them. While he was sitting in the lecture room with that astronomer teaching, the rest of the room began to applause. It seemed to be too much for him because he became unaccountably tired and sick. He felt that way until he left the room and went outside and looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
It’s an understandable poem. At times, when so much information is placed before you in a matter-of-fact way and with so many different things as proof (the diagrams, charts, etc.) it can be too much. Sometimes things just have to be witnessed personally and for how they are without interruption and without someone else’s way of describing them. Also, with science and math explaining everything the clearness and ease of seeing things simplistically can make you overwhelmed.
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While we are a part of the natural world and do things that many others in the natural world do, I would say we are slightly different. We may seek out pray to eat, or be herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores, but, for example, unlike the natural animals of the world, we can choose. Some people are only herbivores, others omnivores, but we make a choice. We are the prey to many animals because we are slower and incapable of defending ourselves against them, like we can be the prey of lions. Instead we can overcome that by making our own devices, such as guns, that would make us win against them and they then become our prey. Some animals can camouflage themselves or play dead to not be eaten by their predator, but those are natural defenses that have come with adaptation over time and normally they still wouldn’t eat their predator, they would just hide until next
The poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman is talking about him listening to an educated astronomer lecture using his proofs, figures, columns, charts, diagrams and how to add, divide, and measure them. While he was sitting in the lecture room with that astronomer teaching, the rest of the room began to applause. It seemed to be too much for him because he became unaccountably tired and sick. He felt that way until he left the room and went outside and looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
It’s an understandable poem. At times, when so much information is placed before you in a matter-of-fact way and with so many different things as proof (the diagrams, charts, etc.) it can be too much. Sometimes things just have to be witnessed personally and for how they are without interruption and without someone else’s way of describing them. Also, with science and math explaining everything the clearness and ease of seeing things simplistically can make you overwhelmed.
His experience with the …show more content…
While we are a part of the natural world and do things that many others in the natural world do, I would say we are slightly different. We may seek out pray to eat, or be herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores, but, for example, unlike the natural animals of the world, we can choose. Some people are only herbivores, others omnivores, but we make a choice. We are the prey to many animals because we are slower and incapable of defending ourselves against them, like we can be the prey of lions. Instead we can overcome that by making our own devices, such as guns, that would make us win against them and they then become our prey. Some animals can camouflage themselves or play dead to not be eaten by their predator, but those are natural defenses that have come with adaptation over time and normally they still wouldn’t eat their predator, they would just hide until next