Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! To help you test the hypothesis, here are 10 great science poems. One could also wonder if the opposite would be true. It could be argued, I suppose, that without science there might be no poetry. Much of poetry is about science, whether it is overt, as in Vachel Lindsay’s “The Horrid Voice of Science” in which he expresses a morbid desire for those who think in such terms to “soon lie / Underground” or Whitman’s “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, ” or the poems of nature like Christina Rossetti’s “Who Has Seen the Wind?” which speaks of scientific phenomena with more nuance. And sure, if you’ve been reading a lot of Hallmark cards and then pick up a sestina, it might feel like you’ve just been called to the blackboard and handed a piece of chalk in that physics class you always slept through.īut poetry is not rocket science, except to the extent to which poetry and science work together. There are those who, in expression of their various poetry-oriented anxieties, would say that poetry feels like rocket science.
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