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“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Walt Whitman Transcendental poem Page 415

DO NOW: Look at the picture below and write a 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your emotional response to the image.

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“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Walt Whitman Transcendental poem Page 415

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  1. DO NOW: Look at the picture below and write a 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your emotional response to the image. 7726 m/s (8000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 300 km altitude 3075 m/s (3000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 35786 km (geosync) 6371 km (6400) -- Mean radius of Earth 6378 km (6400) -- Equatorial radius of Earth 1738 km (1700) -- Mean radius of Moon 5.974e24 kg (6e24) -- Mass of Earth 7.348e22 kg (7e22) -- Mass of Moon 1.989e30 kg (2e30) -- Mass of Sun 3.986e14 m^3/s^2 (4e14) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Earth 4.903e12 m^3/s^2 (5e12) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Moon 1.327e20 m^3/s^2 (13e19) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Sun 384401 km ( 4e5) -- Mean Earth-Moon distance 1.496e11 m (15e10) -- Mean Earth-Sun distance (Astronomical Unit)

  2. Now, look at this picture and write a second 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your emotional response to the image.

  3. “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”Walt WhitmanTranscendental poemPage 415

  4. Step One: • Summarize Poem

  5. Step Two: • Structure/Style

  6. Step Three: • Literary Devices and What They Tell Us: • STANZA ONE:

  7. THEN… • STANZA TWO • “rising and gliding” • “mystical moist” • “perfect silence”

  8. Step Four: • How is this a reflection of transcendentalism? Use your notes.

  9. Step Five: • Theme – a theme is a complete sentence that tells the message the author/poet is sending. It is a universal message that does not apply to the specifics of the literature. • THEME -

  10. Let’s look at another Whitman poem to see if we can determine style.

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