Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Week 7 blog post
Shepherd establishes credibility in the poem, Dust, through his incorporation of scientific knowledge. Shepherd incorporates this knowledge intermittently throughout the poem through his use of strings of words that compile dust. While some of these items are common and can therefore be easily found, many of the items are ones that cannot be seen, like Nitrogen for example. Shepherd use of scientific knowledge is helpful to the reader because it allows them to think outside of their usual realm. For example, although I am aware of dusts existence, I would not say that I think about what compiles it. This poem allowed me to consider how everything we use in our daily life is represented in the dust particles that float in the air around us.
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I appreciate your very interesting perspective. The poem does make us think about our beginnings. As important we may view ourselves, we are all essentially all dust. After death our bodies decompose which has been proven scientifically. It is always interesting to think about that despite everything one does through life, you still end up at the same place.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read this poem, I felt that science was not as fun as magic. However, after delving more into it and reading your blog post, I have discovered that my passion for science is not just in the use of it in a poem, but rather in the chemical and materialistic composition of the poem. I believe that experimenting with different styles of poetry is science in itself, which cannot be overstated enough. Ingenuity is science as well. So even though during the magic phase the focus was not on science, we were discovering the scientific aspects in each poem without realizing it.
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