In article <[log in to unmask]>, Mills,
Billy <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Given the state of our knowledge, there is no good scientific reason for
>arguing that there is an innate predisposition in everyone for poetry. I
>have an extended family member who is a bloody good car mechanic, but he
>would never consider writing, or even reading, poetry. I, on the other hand
>find it tricky to fill a car with petrol, but consider that at times I
>approach that condition to which we give the name 'poet'. So how come nobody
>ever argues for an innate disposition to be a car mechanic.
>
This is something I was thinking about a month or two ago.
Perhaps we do all have a gene/predisposittion/feeling for poetry, but it
is not always for the poetry of words.
People talk about the 'poetry in motion' of dancers, footballers, (maybe
in the case of your car mechanic) the 'sheer poetry' of a well-tuned
engine. Mathematicians too talk about the beauty of an elegant equation.
So, perhaps, the 'poetic-sense' is there in all of us - just attuned,
turned-on, by different aspects of the world.
--
David Hadley
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