When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer

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Published on 10/03/2026 by

Whitman at his finest. He asks us to think of the world (and knowledge) as something not just consisting of numbers, data, calculations and material but also as empirical experience – observation, sensory experience and our own passions, emotional engagement with the world. What do your students think the poem suggests?
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