Question

At the end of Walt Whitman's poem "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer," where does the speaker go?

A.Outside
B.To another lecture
C.To the astronomer's house
D.Home

Answer 1

The answer is: A.Outside

"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman is a poem about an student that gets bored during a lecture about an astronomer, this are the final lines of the poem:

“Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,

In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,

Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”

The speaker was able to see the starts up in the sky, he was outside.

Answer 2

The speaker goes outside. A.

"Excuse me…'scuse me…sorry!" He gets up and heads for the exit. He walks outside and, what a difference! <------ From "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer."

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