Poetic Expressions Poetry and the Art of Nursing

摘要

Many expressions fall into the category of the arts. Visual arts are the most obvious, consisting of fine arts like drawing, painting, and sculpture, as well as contemporary avenues like photography and video art. Music and dance are art forms rooted in antiquity, creative expressions that usually reflect their current culture but may also influence the next. And then, of course, there is poetry, the subject of this column. I've had the opportunity to stand before the work of grand masters of fine art in the Netherlands. How grateful I was that these artists responded to some higher calling that set them apart from their contemporaries.Yet, as I viewed their art up close and personal, I also had the awareness that these were artists who had studied form and anatomy—the bedrock science for their craft. The combination of art and science was evident. Without months in the Royal Academy of Art in Antwerp, Belgium, sketching arms and legs and torsos, would Van Gogh's peasant farmers have been as well developed and true to life? Without his love for the peasants and his desire to recreate their lives of hardship, would the science of art have really mattered? Listening to the symphony play Debussy's Clair de Lune and La Met, it is easy to be transported by this French master's wandering harmonies, and easy to forget that it is highly likely his career began by learning and playing the traditional meters of scales.