Rachel S (3/2/2008 5:48:00 PM)
I see where you're comming from. I'm a true science lover myself, but it think that Poe may just be saying that there is beauty in not knowing. That there is beauty in imagining and creating your own realities. He's not necessarily condemning science, he's just saying that there is beauty in the world outside of the difinitive reality of how exactly things work. |
Lucianne Fasolo (9/30/2007 6:57:00 PM)
I agree with Stephen. But that was only how Romantics saw Science: as something that explained too much when explanations and definitions were unnecessary and even undesirable. In spite of that I love this poem. |
Stephen Patrick (1/29/2007 5:19:00 PM)
I like the poem, but thoroughly disagree that science 'ruins the mysteries of life' or the magic, or whatever. Any true scientist, be it of physics or biology, can appreciate the beauty and complexity in the natural world, far more than someone who knows little on the subject. By analyzing things, we can fully appreciate the phenomena such as consciousness and continuity of the universe, it makes things more wonderful and exciting, not the other way round. |
Kelsey Wills (1/18/2007 6:40:00 PM)
I don't think the logical aspect of life has to conflict with the emotional. Look at Leonardo DaVinci; he was both an inventor and artist and excelled in both fields. Understanding what stars are made of doesn't make them any less bright. That's just my opinion. |
Akara K. (8/27/2006 6:33:00 PM)
It's true, science ruins everything... all the mysteries in life, all the things that we can marvel over and the magnificent wonders of nature that make us happy... they have to go and analyze them all, explain how everything happens, and it just completely destroys the magic. |
Edgar Allan Poe
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