<span>Whitman gets up and walks out of the lecture hall because he is tired of all the words, numbers, and technicalities about stars and he just goes outside and looks at the stars in the night sky and that is all he needs psychically. It ties in with Emerson's transcendental idea that man is (or should be) just a big eye ball who observes and experiences but try to dominate or interfere.</span>
I’m pretty sure it’s A but I’m not sure
<span>Okay, I would say the excerpt is significant in that it expresses the distance the daughter had always felt towards her Aunt Imogen, and how significant this distance is. That's what I would take from that excerpt. If you have any more questions, feel free to message me so we can further discuss this. :)</span>
