When I Heard The Learn D Astronomer By Walt Whitman

All throughout writing, authors put hidden messages for their readers to find and learn from in their stories. The poem When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman, and The Expert by Enrico Diego both use structure to help the meaning in their writings. The text structures of both of these stories help develop the meaning and help me understand the speaker and the characters to a deeper perspective.
In the short story by Diego, there was a sweet meaning behind it. Throughout The Expert Jim and a girl named Katie are on a nature hike together. The topic the author is trying to put through is that you should not judge a book by its cover. This is shown in paragraph two when Diego said, “Jim was several years older than Katie, and he

His meaning was that you should never overwork yourself, otherwise you may lose your passion. In lines five to eight, Whitman wrote, “ How soon ,unaccountable, I became tired and sick/,” But then ended his poem stating, “Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” To understand what this means, we need to look at lines three and four, which describe a learning experience. Hinting to the idea that the speaker in the story was an astronomy student. Back to the first quote, when they are described as, “...tired and sick/,” this shows a state of burnout. The person has overworked themselves, and is in a way done with having to learn the same ideas over and over. They’re losing the passion they have for the stars. But, once the speaker is reunited on their own time with the topic. The love for it comes back, as shown in line eight where more loving and admirable wordings are used. Whitman’s point was that you should never work yourself so much, to the point where you hate something you

In Whitman’s poem, the speaker is described in a clear, but not detailed way. For example in line four, we are shown that the speaker is an astronomy student, “ When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,/” Most lectures are viewed by a student or studier of the topic. As for Diego’s story, the two characters are described indirectly with how they act and what they say or do. Going back to the second paragraph, this clearly shows how Jim views himself. He is very self loving, to the point where he puts himself over others before he knows what they can do. As for Katie, in paragraph ten she very specifically describes a bird to Jim. This shows that she is a passionate person for the things she loves. Without a passion she would not have known that information that fast, nor would she have wanted to correct and educate Jim about what he had