NCERT Book Class 11 English (Woven Words) Essay 3 Patterns of Creativity

Patterns of Creativity 153

3 Patterns of Creativity
S. Chandrasekhar

F Look for these expressions and guess the meaning from the context

cold philosophy mutually sustaining endeavours
picaresque tale cenotaph atrophy
looked askance prophetic discernment
apposite hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration
interlunations of life

...B ut I must return to the question: why is there a
difference in the patterns of creativity among the
practitioners in the arts and the practitioners in the
sciences? 1 shall not attempt to answer this question
directly; but I shall make an assortment of remarks which
may bear on the answer.
First, I should like to consider how scientists and poets
view one another. When one thinks of the attitude of poets
to science, one almost always thinks of Wordsworth and
Keats and their off-quoted lines
A fingering slave,
One that would peep and botanises
Upon his mother’s grave?

A reasoning self-suffering thing.
An intellectual AlI-in-AIl!

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings:
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
(Wordsworth)