Beauty is always in nature. It expresses itself in many ways. In the poem “When I Listened to the Learned Astronomer” by Walt Whitman I express the beauty of the stars. Just looking up into space gave him peace. Walt writes about the allure of the stars. How the night sky can transform a situation. He writes, experiencing this phenomenon firsthand is better than telling it. In most cases, the real is better than the copy. The beauty of the experience and the possibility of seeing reality compared to what is told is necessary. Whitman expresses how the night sky was all he needed and his feelings. In the poem “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth, the premise is like Whitman's poem. It's the beauty of nature and how people don't look to nature for inspiration. People simply look at nature less. Both works show the worldly influence in people's lives. In both pieces, Whitman and Wordsworth show how nature brings true beauty. Walt Whitman's poem speaks of the wonder of astronomy. He wanted to know the stars. He went and listened to an astronomer. He recounts: "When I listened to the learned astronomer, when the evidence, the figures, were laid out in columns before me." All the data about astronomy was laid out before him, but this did not capture his interest or fill his curiosity. It makes things worse. His plan to see the beauty of the stars turned into boredom and a dull, lackluster lecture. He writes: "How irresponsible I quickly became tired and ill." The lecture, the data and the astronomer were not the beauty he wanted to see. The viewing experience is what he wanted to see. For him the silence and the sight of the stars were better than the conference and the data. Beauty is what he really wanted. He didn't want hard facts. He... half the paper... y. An astronomer couldn't give the speaker what he wanted. He didn't want the graphs and data. They bored him so much that he abandoned the conference. He went out and was content only with the silence of the stars and the night air. He didn't need notes or an accomplished astronomer to see the beauty. In “The World Is Too Much With Us” the speaker shows the flaws of society and how little nature has evolved. Whoever speaks, if he could, would try to do so only for a small part of nature in his life. He wants to take a look so he doesn't feel like he's forgetting about nature. He wants to see the sea. Proteus or Triton is what he wanted. Even if this makes him “a pagan nursed in a worn-out creed”. The beauty of nature is what both speakers desire and what both writers explain. Nature has more to offer and show than the world, graphs, data or astronomers could ever show.