When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Walt Whitman’s, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” is a poem that captivates me intensely. The poem is trying to say that to learn how to appreciate something we have to go and see it or do it. The author in the poem says that his professor’s lecture though factual was boring. It was not till he went outside and saw the stars that he appreciated them. This is true in very aspect of life. To appreciate something we have to be it, live it, see it, touch it and breathe it. Personally, it is not enough for someone to tell me how to do something they have to teach it to me and this is exactly what the author was trying to portray through his essay.