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At the end of Walt Whitman's poem "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer," where does the speaker go?
A.Outside
B.To another lecture
C.To the astronomer's house
D.Home

Verified Answer :

The speaker goes outside. A. 

"Excuse me…'scuse me…sorry!" He gets up and heads for the exit. He walks outside and, what a difference! <------ From "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer." 

I hope this helps. C:

The answer is: A.Outside


"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman is a poem about an student that gets bored during a lecture about an astronomer, this are the final lines of the poem:


“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.”


The speaker was able to see the starts up in the sky, he was outside.