In Walt Whitman's poem, the speaker feels sick during the lecture as he becomes disillusioned by the scientific approach to astronomy.
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman portrays the speaker feeling sick during the lecture. The speaker becomes disillusioned by the analytical and scientific approach to astronomy and craves a more personal, spiritual connection with the universe instead of just facts and figures.
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