“when i heard the learn’d astronomer” walt whitman transcendental poem page 415
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DO NOW: Look at the picture below and write a 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your emotional response to the image. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DO NOW: Look at the picture below and write a 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your
emotional response to the image.7726 m/s (8000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 300 km altitude 3075 m/s (3000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 35786 km (geosync) 6371 km (6400) -- Mean radius of Earth 6378 km (6400) -- Equatorial radius of Earth 1738 km (1700) -- Mean radius of Moon 5.974e24 kg (6e24) -- Mass of Earth 7.348e22 kg (7e22) -- Mass of Moon 1.989e30 kg (2e30) -- Mass of Sun 3.986e14 m^3/s^2 (4e14) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Earth 4.903e12 m^3/s^2 (5e12) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Moon 1.327e20 m^3/s^2 (13e19) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Sun 384401 km ( 4e5) -- Mean Earth-Moon distance 1.496e11 m (15e10) -- Mean Earth-Sun distance (Astronomical Unit)
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Now, look at this picture and write a second 4-line poetic stanza about how it makes you feel. Choose language/diction/rhetoric that fits your emotional
response to the image.
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“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”Walt Whitman
Transcendental poem
Page 415
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Step One:
• Summarize Poem
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Step Two:
• Structure/Style
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Step Three:
• Literary Devices and What They Tell Us:• STANZA ONE:
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THEN…
• STANZA TWO– “rising and gliding”
– “mystical moist”
– “perfect silence”
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Step Four:
• How is this a reflection of transcendentalism? Use your notes.
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Step Five:
• Theme – a theme is a complete sentence that tells the message the author/poet is sending. It is a universal message that does not apply to the specifics of the literature.
• THEME -
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• Let’s look at another Whitman poem to see if we can determine style.