What could poetry learn from science?
Some interesting? points for comparison:
poetry: the individual?
science: collective endeavour?
poetry: personal criteria determine success?
science: peer review(?)
poetry: beauty and usefulness
science: usefulness and beauty
poetry: no such thing as advances, or discoveries, the
Greeks or the medievals or the librarians 'all did it
before'.
science: searches for new phenomena
Its this last proposition that is most intriguing to
me, are discoveries in poetry possible?
If the answer is yes then can this discovery be made
systematically or does it have to be to quote some on
this list previously all ones own "contingencies".
As a list is there any mileage to the notion that
collective endeavour may play some part in poetic
creation?.
neville attkins
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