When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer by Walt Whitman Briefly, this poem tells about the narrator who

joins the astronomy class, but after awhile he feels tired and bored with the systematic explanation which is delivered by an astronomer and finally he decides to leave the room. When he is outside, he finds an experience about the stars from another side. In the first fourth lines, Whitman uses and emphasizes the word When by put it and capitalize it in the beginning of the each lines to shows that these lines explain about the importance of the setting. The setting here is not only about the place but also about the activities and the situations. In which the narrator seems does not like this situation. First line of this poem, the word astronomer introduces the readers to the object of the poem. The word astronomer deals with nature. Thus, the object of the poem is about nature. The nature also symbolized by stars in last line. The second-third line says that nature is described through a very systematic way by the astronomer. It is shown by the words such as; columns, charts, diagrams. The fourth line, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much Applause in the lectureroom this quote means that the narrator is not a part of the peer who applauses for the astronomer, he is just sitting down while other people applause. The reason is shown in fifth line, the narrator feels bored and tired of the explanation of the astronomer. In the sixth line, the writer used the term gliding as a hyperbole. The writer here can only simply says go or leave but he uses the word gliding as his creative way to express that here the character/narrator feels so much bored and tired, then he need to leave the room. Line seventh-eighth tells that the narrator finds a different experience about the stars. The word mystical has an importance to show that it is very magical to see the stars in its own nature instead of in a systematic way. Looked up in a perfect silence at the stars, supports the idea that the stars are magical in its own natural way. In this poem, there are two different ways to see nature. The astronomer sees the nature systematically in a scientific way. It is in contrast with the Whitmans opinion to leave nature as is and to not take nature apart into pieces and make it systematic. He sees science only as a border of a beauty. In this poem, he sees columns, charts, and diagrams as the borders of the beauty of the stars. When he is outside, he looks at the stars in romantic side in which he can put his imagination highly without any borders. Therefore, I think this poem is about reality and imagination. The reality is reflected by the scientific way of the astronomer and the imagination is reflected by the romantic way of the narrator.