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[[Image:Alchemy.jpg]] | [[Image:Alchemy.jpg]] Poet on the Verge of an engineering Bug or Engineer on the Verge of a Poetic Bug | ||
This is a page for poetry about science, technology and engineering. I envision it as place to create and discover metaphors that bridge these two very disparate spheres of human existence and human thinking. More than that, it is place to engage or re-engage with language and with language metaphors. | This is a page for poetry about science, technology and engineering. I envision it as place to create and discover metaphors that bridge these two very disparate spheres of human existence and human thinking. More than that, it is place to engage or re-engage with language and with language metaphors. | ||
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I start with some more traditional poems to begin the bridge-building process. Why traditional poems? Many of them have a lot to offer despite their age and their often pre-computer social contexts. The poets nonetheless gave a great deal of thought to the science and technology of their era, quaint as it may seem to us now. Here | I start with some more traditional poems to begin the bridge-building process. Why traditional poems? Many of them have a lot to offer despite their age and their often pre-computer social contexts. The poets nonetheless gave a great deal of thought to the science and technology of their era, quaint as it may seem to us now. Here's a few poems and some thoughts: | ||
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[http://www.poetryfoundation.org] - The Poetry Foundation | [http://www.poetryfoundation.org] - The Poetry Foundation | ||