![]() ![]() In this respect, poetry speaks to the same urgency to know what makes us tick as neuroscience does. This makes sense: poetry spends a lot of time dancing around “ the hard problem” of how the physical stimuli we are exposed to end up as the subjective experience researchers call qualia. Now the rise of neuroscience, in particular, seems to be attracting a new generation. For years, big-name poets like Ruth Padel, Lavinia Greenlaw and Alice Fulton have drawn on scientific ideas. The poet wouldn’t be impressed with today’s poetry and science love-in. KEATS hated science, complaining that it “would clip an angel’s wings”, and that Newton had “destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism”. ![]() In their own way, poems hold a mirror to reality ![]()
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