>> Calling Angelou a “poet” is like calling Algore an “Environmental Scientist”... <<
She may be a bad poet, but she is a poet. Al Gore is not an environmental scientist, and probably couldn’t read word one of an atmospheric-science journal. To be a poet, you only have to write poetry that SOMEONE likes to read. To be an environmental scientist, you have to learn the scientific method to identify valid information, study statistics and vectors to identify significant data, practice objective analysis, and of course, learn a hell of a lot of calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Andrew Dice Clay is a better "poet" than Maya.
>> To be an environmental scientist, you have to learn the scientific method to identify valid information, study statistics and vectors to identify significant data, practice objective analysis, and of course, learn a hell of a lot of calculus, physics, chemistry, and biology. <<
And, of course, keep in mind Al lost his draft deferment by flunking out of a liberal-arts major (divinity school). Not exactly a rigorous mind. I once read an article by him on theology. Despite an amazingly complex diagram and several pages of verbosity, all he managed to do was describe (as if it were some new thing he stumbled apon) was the concept of “transcendence.” He had discovered the most rudimentary of spiritual concepts, yet had the egotism to believe he had struck apon something fanstastically new, and the clouded mind to be incapable of expressing it any simpler of a form.
Give him 100 years of schooling, and I dare say he’d never cut it as an environmental scientist.
You're taking my comment a little too seriously. I was making a joke. The point being that I think her "poetry" sucks.