Medicine in Poetry

After reading Holub's poems and views about poetry and science, I feel that I must agree with a few of the points made while at the same time disagree about some points. For example, Holub states that sciences bar all secondary factors associated with writing or speaking; and that they are based on a single logical meaning of the sentence or of the word. He goes on to say that poetry tries for as many interactions between words and thoughts as it can. While I do feel like science is a bit more systematic than poetry, I do feel that it also tries to connect thoughts every bit as much as poetry does. Different variables can correspond to different results that spur other thoughts that lead to other experiments. One aspect I do agree with is that poetry is often more controversial than science in that it spurs thoughts of emotion in individuals, while I feel like in science this is extremely limited.

Additionally, I am a strong advocate of very unconventional lines in poems. One of the lines that made me chuckle was "Diarrhea is like intellectual melancholy". At first I found it to be disgusting, but once I extracted (get it?) what the writer was trying to say, I feel like intellectual melancholy is essentially the breakup of similar thoughts that are not connected. Holub uses a lot of poems involving medicine, a trend I found to be very interesting and hope we will discuss in class on Monday.