When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself…

Then, read the lines from “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim.”

Then with light fingers I from the face of the nearest the first just lift the blanket;
Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray’d hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
Who are you my dear comrade?

Both poems shift from long lines to shorter lines in a similar way. How is the effect of this shift different in each poem?

a. The shift in “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” creates a fast pace that reveals a theme about escape. In contrast, the lines in “A Sight in Camp Daybreak Gray and Dim” create a slow pace that hints at a theme about death despite the shift.

b. The shift in “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” switches the point of view from the astronomer’s to the speaker’s. In contrast, the lines in “A Sight in Camp Daybreak Gray and Dim” stay with the speaker despite the shift.

c. The shift in “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” reveals the speaker’s point of view toward the astronomer. In contrast, the simple observations in “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” are maintained despite the shift.

d. The shift in “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” changes the tone of the poem from one of frustration to one of relief. In contrast, the sad tone is maintained in “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim” despite the shift.

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with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.