He also attended multiple Universities including University of Krakow where he studied both painting and mathematics, once he graduated, he then went to the best Universities in Italy. This meant that the church meant a lot to him throughout his life as a child. That was the case until Copernicus came and opened their minds to another possibility.Ĭopernicus was a man who was born into a merchant family, but was soon orphaned at the young age of 10, he then lived with his aunt and uncle, the latter was an important bishop. His Geocentric Universal model, where the earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around us, there was no question that this was fact. When Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, there was only one view/model of the universe, which was Ptolemy’s model. Nicolaus Copernicus’s book “The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies” was a book that challenged the way people think and made them rethink what they knew as fact.
" As I walked Out One Evening" by W.H.Copernicus and the Heavenly Revolutions.
Amiri Baraka creates a similar gesture with stars in his poem "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note," where he imagines that even the stars have deserted him in his time of crisis:Īnd when they will not come to be counted,įor those romantic astronomers who still see the moon and stars as symbols of fidelity, eternity, and unchanging love, they will find themselves in the good company of many historical and contemporary poets. Even the rhymes miss each other slightly, sounding as hollow as he imagines the moon to be. Nothing is as it seems, Yeats is saying, and romantic love is no longer possible. That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown It is not just his own love that he is questioning, but the nature of romantic love in the modern world. With a flick of the pen, Yeats transformed the solid body of the moon to nothing more than a shell worn away by time. Washed by time's waters as they rose and fellĪbout the stars and broke in days and years. Yeats imagines the loss of love, writing:Īnd in the trembling blue-green of the sky William Butler Yeats, on the other hand, in his poem "Adam's Curse," calls into question the constancy of the moon, an early gesture towards Modernism. Auden compares his undying love with the constancy of the universe, imagining in "As I Walked Out One Night" that as long as the stars do not fall from the sky, he will love his lover. Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night. The was especially immortalized in many Romantic poems, including Percy Bysshe Shelley’s fragment "To the Moon," where he imagines the moon’s steadiness has become lonely, "like a joyless eye / That finds no object worth its constancy." In John Keats’s poem "Bright Star," he wishes for the star’s immortality instead of his own frail body:īright star! would I were steadfast as thou art. Rather than divining his wisdom from the stars, the narrator of the sonnet derives knowledge "from thine eyes," calling them "constant stars" that suggest to him truth and beauty.Īs expressive elements of the natural world and symbols of constancy and immortality-the eternally unchanging, the mysteriously absent-the stars and moon and other heavenly bodies have long captured the imaginations of poets. Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck, While moons, suns, planets and starry configurations may seem to preside over our lives, Shakespeare challenged the practice of reading his fate from the stars in his fourteenth sonnet: Sure, Romeo and Juliet were "star-crossed," but Shakespeare wasn't so easily fooled by the movements of heavenly bodies.
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