[TPIN] ANALYZATION/MASTERY/GREAT ART

[fields at stanford.edu]

Someone asked the great classical scholar, E.L. Bundy (world famous  
Pindar expert), if poetry was an art or a craft, and he  replied that  
in classical Greek it was the same word, techne.  As a poet I've been  
through the analysis-rhyme word thing for years.  Spitting a seed or a  
hair from your tongue may be a craft, but hair-splitting is not.

As a trumpet player, I blow, but my craft, my art, is poetry:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Ken Fields
(He who bloweth not his own horn heareth not the tooting thereof.)

Quoting Michael Anderson <manderson at okcu.edu>:

>
> I can't agree.. Some of these things are all skills and there is a big
> difference. We often misuse the word "art." I'm a fly fisherman and people
> talk about the "art of flyfishing." Its no more art than a worm under a
> bobber. It does require considerably more skill though and it can sometimes
> appear to be visually artistic, but it is all skill and knowledge.
>
> Composing, improvising and interpreting music is art. Playing the trumpet is
> not. Craft is skill.