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Which excerpt from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” BEST reflects Whitman’s belief that poetry should be written for the common people? A)"When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them"
B)"In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,/Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
C)"When I heard the learn'd astronomer,/When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me..."
D)"When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,/How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick..."

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