Don't both poetry and science contain elements of:
observation
contemplation
organisation
extrapolation
inspiration
imagination
experimentation?
I sometimes think that separating different branches of human endeavour we
forget that humanity and endeavour are more important than all the
differences.
Helen
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From: neville attkins <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: unfashionable thought
> 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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