2007-03-24 21:36:39 · 3 answers · asked by nonnymilgraum 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Good question; if the two are the same lines your edition has, great as this is how Whitman wrote the lines. I looked over several versions on the Internet and none were true to the first printings.
4 measure them,
6 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 perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman (1865)
The last four lines have to stand as they are as they are the outside, experience phase of this poem.
Changing the poem from how it should be presented, changes the rhythm, pace, etc.
2007-03-25 02:45:20 · answer #1 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem isn't very clean or complete, yet from what I understand. The Asronomer, is probably explaining the mystries of the universe, via scientic strategies, that can not be engnored, there for purely too termendous for the protagnist of the poem, hense his understanding and attempting to make experience of the sky and stars he has seen with the aid of out his life.
2016-11-23 14:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will a detailed answer on this page
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2007-03-26 12:31:00 · answer #3 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋