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I really enjoyed our class discussion today of Jane Hirshfield's "Empedocles' Physics." At the beginning of our meeting we discussed our prior experience with poetry and mine was hardly any. However, I really feel that I learned how to approach a poem today while I was listening to everyone work through it.

I think we demonstrated one more way in which the natural sciences and the humanities/social sciences are not that different. Both can benefit from a view from "many somewheres." We each had created different stories about what the poem was saying (and we all did seem to have the need to create a story). None of the stories were wrong yet I think the collaboration was a much more meaningful story than our individual ones.

And you have all inspired me to read more poetry...