Friday, April 10, 2009

Science Proceeds (Found Poem)

Today's napowrimo prompt from readwritepoem is to write a found poem, in which you take a passage from someone else's prose and turn it into a poem. The following is from Mappings in Thought and Language by Gilles Fauconnier (google books).

Science proceeds
Indirectly it correlates
Surface phenomena

Interpreting them in
Certain ways
At the observational level
And hypothesizing deeper
And more general.

Relations and principles
Underlying the phenomena
Of our knowledge...

The universe is
Indirect!
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13 comments:

  1. Jenn JilksApril 10, 2009 at 5:44 AM

    There you go! Good job.

    I'm not sure I can do this, but will try!

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  2. AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 9:15 AM

    Scientific words are quite beautiful. Nice choice.

    I went the science route, too, with this prompt!! ;)

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  3. PamApril 10, 2009 at 10:48 AM

    Wonderful! I don't often think of a scientific source as being poetic-- goes to show me!

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  4. AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM

    I agree with Pam LOL. I didn't know you could turn science into poetry. You did a GREAT job!

    http://lori102870.blogspot.com/2009/04/stitch-in-timenapowrimo-10by-me.html

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  5. GavinApril 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM

    Great choice. I often think of scientific writing as poetic and also chose one for today's prompt.
    http://page247.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/napowrimo-10/

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  6. Wayne PitchkoApril 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    I get my poetry mostly from intuition and dreams...however a scientific spin is great also....nice poem

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  7. AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM

    I come from a science/maths background. I like the way you've divided it up to show surface and depth and that's a great last line.

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  8. samApril 10, 2009 at 5:46 PM

    Hey Erin! I love this poem (especially since I'm vastly interested in Physics). The universe really is quite indirect sometimes. :)

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  9. gautami tripathyApril 10, 2009 at 7:20 PM

    Wonderful. I always think of pure sciences as poetry!

    A man, his fiddle and crows

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  10. Erin DavisApril 10, 2009 at 7:28 PM

    I think science can be quite poetic. The text I took this from is actually a linguistics text, so maybe it's a natural place for language to meet science.

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  11. KathleenApril 10, 2009 at 9:38 PM

    Why can't the universe be more direct? It's really quite exhausting trying to make sense of its subtext. Thank God fo poetry--so much more scrutable. Marvelous piece, Erin.

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  12. Danielle FilasApril 11, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    Love the unexpected juxtapositions here. And I agree- the last 2 lines make the whole piece work.

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  13. dsApril 11, 2009 at 7:44 PM

    I'd say you 'mapped' the thought and language perfectly. The universe is/Indirect! Indeed!

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