Where Science Meets Poetry

Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 17:35 in Earth & Climate

Where Science Meets Poetry Caveat:  it may strike the reader from what follows that I have an agendist stance against modern poetry.  I have no quarrel with that assessment. Quite obviously, science meets poetry in the field of linguistics.  But what if scientists could embrace poetry?  What if a paper in, say, oceanography, were rendered in the media as poetry?  Would the public more readily grasp the core concepts? As moontide drags her weary waythrough ocean, sea, and gulf, and bay ... I think you see my drift1. read more

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