Question

what feeling does the poem if evoke? what do the first four lines serve as? what do the final four line describe?
CHAPTER:-(when I heard the learn'd astronomer)​

Answer 1

It was first published in 1867. The poem gives an account of the speaker's experience of listening to a tiring lecture of an astronomer. It also illustrates that the mystery of nature cannot be summed up in facts and figures. The poet explains that true knowledge can be gained when we observe the sky in solitude.