Pedestrian Theophany

I learned a new big word today: THEOPHANY, which refers to a disclosure from God, or the appearance of a deity to a human. 
This came up in a discussion of Keats' "To Autumn," a poem of which my professor says literally every word should be analyzed; she has threatened to teach an entire semester-long seminar on this one poem.  It is an ode to the season, and a hymn to (and perhaps elegy for) Ceres / Demeter, goddesses of Autumn and Harvest. 
The professor contrasted this kind of theophany with one in a poem by Walt Whitman, "Song of the Exposition," in which the Muse has decamped from Parnassus and "She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!"
Going over my notes tonight I found written, next to this citation, "pedestrian theophany."
And that's how I know I'm playing with the big boys here at Harvard. ;)