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media type="custom" key="24534962" "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman has its own original style. In my voice-over, I tried to emphasize this style. In order to do this I stressed large anount of commas that were included to stop the reader, in order to help the reader understand what was important. Also, enjambment was used to continue a thought which I also stressed. Certain phrases, such as the last line, I found had more importance to the understanding of the poem. With these phrases, I attempted to make it more dramatic to convey this. The author's style is found through his punctuation, emotion, and message, and this reading attempted to display these.

Tommy Burkhart (Response to Walt Whitman) 12/9/13     6B Bundy __ When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer __

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon I became filled with awe and gratitude, For now I had a guide to teach myself, So I stepped outside and, now with a purpose and meaning, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.