Walt Whitman presents a piece of literature through his poem “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer”. Through this poem Walt Whitman shares his experience at what seems to be an astronomer event of some sort. Walt goes on to explain how the astronomer whose presenting his speech receives praise from claps and numerous cheers from the crowds. Walt mentions his lecture consisted of charts and diagrams as they were shown before him to divide, add and measure them. However, Walt found these attributes of his speech of less importance. As, he mentions further on that he becomes sick and tired. So sick and tired in fact he leaves and began to wonder off. He found himself going out into the night and gazing at the stars as he found perfect silence; There was many ways to interpret this poem which I feel is the best part of this piece of literature. I took this poem in a more literal aspect where Walt went and began too actually free his mind by letting his mind wonder off looking into the sky. Walt may have just wanted his mind to be free instead of putting the other astronomers’ boundaries and restrictions with his diagrams and charts etc on his mind. Letting that go allowed his mind to be to be at piece as he looked up at the stars. Another reader may approach this poem with the notion that Walt was trying to express the way he chose to go his own path. Instead of applauding and cheering like others did Walt decided to go his own route and exercise his own brain by letting his mind wonder as he appreciates the stars and in return bring him silence.