Everyone says poetry is an art, and it is. Or is it?
Here are some reasons for why it is like a sci experiment:
1. It's good to have a purpose in mind, a reason why you wrote it, i.e. an 'Aim.' Although, admittedly, this might change since a lot of poems start off with one aim, and then totally change direction.
2. It's bucket chemistry. You don't know which chemicals/images might work, in which proportions, so it's trial and error till you get it right.
3. Sci fair experiments and poems have to be original. They might be totally new, or might explore/investigate something in a different way.
4. For sci fair as well as poems, there is the 'audience' to think about - judges and readers respectively.
5. It helps, when being interviewed about your sci project, if you come across as really enthusiastic about what you've done. So...there's an element of emotion in both.
6. Imagination helps in both - albeit to different extents - since in sci fair, if you stuff something up, then you've got to creatively fix it.
7. In both, the 'discussion' part allows for interpretation of the poem/science results in various ways, with many contributing factors. So, a final conclusion is rarely reached - rather, probable conclusions are tossed around.
Some reasons why poetry is not like a sci fair experiment:
1. You can write as much as you want in the sci discussion to shove the message down the examiners' throats, to explore every facet of the experiment. In a poem, you need an element of control with the intended theme.
2. Having a method helps in repeating a sci fair experiment, but is utterly useless in repeating a poetry-writing session.
3. The experiment is generally only concerned with facts. Poetry deals with both intellect and emotion.
4. You use the left side of your brain to write poetry, and generally the right side to do science. (Correct me if I've got them mixed up).
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So, that's about all I can come up with. Science is winning 7 to 4 right now - not that that takes into account the weight of each reason.
Now it's YOUR TURN! What do you think?
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