J When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer F by WALT WHITMAN'F '4 When I heard the learn'd astronomer, F When the proofs, the gures, were ranged in

Please discuss the essays and poem. Identify the thesis statements of each reading and the evidence/details used to support the thesis. Discuss what ideas the authors presented that you dis/agreed with and why. Ask questions of one another.

J When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Fby WALT WHITMAN‘F‘4When I heard the learn'd astronomer, FWhen the proofs, the ﬁgures, were ranged in columns before me, FWhen I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure than, FWhen I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, F‘JHow soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, FTill rising and gliding out Iwander’d off by myself, FIn the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, FLook’d up in perfect Ell-GE at the stars.F‘4