'When I Heard The Learn D Astronomer'

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Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson use different structures and figurative language, they convey a similar attitude about education and religion, which are common institutions. In “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman and “324” by Emily Dickinson both poets use personification to describe their tone in order to explain the view of their groups. Although, they use different poem structures and figurative language. Whitman and Dickinson have a similar attitude, in the poem “324”, Dickinson writes, “and instead of tolling the Bell, for church,/Our little Sexton ― sings” (Lines 7-8). She’s explaining that she doesn’t feel the need to follow the rules of church to find God, instead she finds God in the life around her. Whitman

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