tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post4383154089231915720..comments2024-03-14T00:29:33.297-07:00Comments on Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry: Art and Science and A Robinenudelmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02783099447032485020noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-29924677155622913622023-08-25T15:06:29.401-07:002023-08-25T15:06:29.401-07:00Great reading yoour postGreat reading yoour postJustchilling Vhttps://justchilling-v.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-1531376180972921002010-02-21T03:02:38.140-08:002010-02-21T03:02:38.140-08:00I just got an email directing me here, I guess aut...I just got an email directing me here, I guess automatically generated from two years ago when I wanted to know the followup to my comments about this most excellent essay. Sad that blogspot can't prevent such wholesale spamming, so that some bot spammer for a stimulant drug can soil a thread of a notable poet. <br />Anyhow, the good news is I reread Art and Science and A Robin and found your approach to the topic first covered by C.P.Snow in his famous essay as fresh as ever.<br />Take care, buddy.John Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08670993524464238948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-43278297797190785932008-08-04T06:03:00.000-07:002008-08-04T06:03:00.000-07:00How do I unsubscribe from this?I'm not at all inte...How do I unsubscribe from this?<BR/><BR/>I'm not at all interested in biographical, expressive or didactic poetry.<BR/><BR/>Please advise.Diana Manisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15987993983665335574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-77426619776264616452008-04-20T19:26:00.000-07:002008-04-20T19:26:00.000-07:00I am sighing after reading you tonight. Just yest...I am sighing after reading you tonight. Just yesterday I visited your pages in hopes of finding something new I had missed the notification on. <BR/><BR/>I remember rising most mornings and coming to read you first. <BR/>While I give you that we are human beings, and as such we have a right to atttend to our own needs--mine have been sorely lacking without my morning dose of poetry with ENudleman's fine words. <BR/><BR/>This was an excellent piece and I as always, enjoyed you. Thank you.<BR/>psybieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-32426566246430649172008-04-20T14:25:00.000-07:002008-04-20T14:25:00.000-07:00exactly John, and thanks so much for filling in th...exactly John, and thanks so much for filling in the blanks. So true about deco, and structure in poetry, perhaps more than any other writing genre, presupposes method (even free verse)enudelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02783099447032485020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-671943706633921975.post-74867850576959249842008-04-20T13:25:00.000-07:002008-04-20T13:25:00.000-07:00An elegant synthetic argument about how artistic t...An elegant synthetic argument about how artistic thinking and scientific thinking dovetail into our notion of what a 'robin' is, both the individual specimen as a perceived, experienced phenomenon and the species itself as an object of study, when the two kinds of knowledge interlock into 'robin-ness' in the sense of a '"family resemblance" as the great philosopher of mind and language Wittgenstein might have put it, Ed.<BR/><BR/>This unique relationship between art and science, this " benefiting in a mutual and symbiotic process of declaration, understanding and enlightenment" means for me that they inform each other in a unique way, that is to say, in the way that an individual mind--my mind--can inform the world of a subjective event and be informed by the world of an objective context for it, and in the way that a scientific theory that may only be partially true as proven later in a shift in the scientific paradigm may depicted as an underpinning of 'reality' in an accumulation of art styles of a period, for example notions of light particles (later complemented by waves) in relationship to the Impressionists and post-Impressionists.<BR/><BR/>Art matters to science: Science matters to art. Neither should presume to be master of the other, but instead, learn a common language. So neuroanatomists ought to learn to speak " mentalese' and literary critics ought to truly do some math before they reduce quantum theory down to a few badly distilled metaphors. This stands to reason...it also seems reasonable to the imagination.<BR/><BR/>And let's not forget about style in technology, either (I think to myself) remembering how art deco came out of industrial design.John Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08670993524464238948noreply@blogger.com