Corporate Work

Question 1

Read and analyze “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman. What Romantic ideas does it express, and how does the structure of the poem reinforce the meaning? ESSAY question. Requires 2+ paragraphs

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;

When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,

How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;

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 he perfect silence at the stars

Question 2

Here is your ESSAY 4, the poetry essay. After reading the directions carefully, and when you are finished writing, please submit the essay for grading.

ESSAY 4 DIRECTIONS

First, explain in simple contemporary language what is going on in each set of lines (or stanza)—write as if this were being said today in a local club or bar. In other words, change the language here from that of late 19th century England to that of a club in your city or region today.

Then explainabout the narrator’s (the speaker’s in the poem–not Thomas Hardy’s) argument about why he killed the man. Then, based on his language and delivery, explain his argument–whether or not he feels he did the right thing when he killed the man. Finally, explain the narrator’s attitude (or feelings) toward war itself.

In your essay be specific. Use “proof” from the poem to show your argument or points. This proof will be specific statements the narrator makes.