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These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a bo- tanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scienti c treatment defamiliarises. Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness, as in 'The First Green The Observer Interviews Clorinda', where Marvell's pastoral character is turned, through a journalistic register, into a personi cation of current ecological concerns.
These poems explore the boundary between science and poetry, and juxtapose the lexicon of organic chemistry, in particular, with a bo- tanical discourse which is more conventional in poetry, but which the scienti c treatment defamiliarises. Far from being abstruse and heavy, the treatment here lightens the subject with an imaginative playfulness, as in 'The First Green The Observer Interviews Clorinda', where Marvell's pastoral character is turned, through a journalistic register, into a personi cation of current ecological concerns.
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