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What is Walt Whitman’s poem “when I heard the learn’d astronomer” about

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The poem seems to be describing listening to a 'learned astronomer' lecture. 
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A student becoming bored during a lecture

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The speaker is on an astronomer's lecture. He sees evidences and figures in sections before him as nothing but outlines and graphs that he should break down scientifically. Toward the finish of the lecture, everybody claps. In the mean time, the speaker sits in the address room, feeling weary. It is only when he is going away that he gazes upward into the sky and finally perceives how enchanting the stars are.

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