Chaos in Art and LiteratureAbstract: The following article deals with the expanding world of the new science of chaos. Chaos is unique because it can be applied to all fundamental sciences and, more importantly, it can be applied to subjects not considered scientific. The following article deals with evidence of chaos in literature and art and how it works in this world. Although many aspects of chaos found in art and literature are different from chaos science, some similarities still emerge and can be seen when examined closely. Chaos was found to be especially evident in the works of WB Yeats, John Milton, Wallace Stevens, William Blake, Jackson Pollock, and in the works of those involved in the Futurist movement. Chaos is a word with many applications. It has been used to describe situations without order and at the same time it has been used to describe the mechanisms underlying fundamental sciences. Interestingly, chaos can now be found in other areas of academia, particularly in art and literature. Examining the literature of William Blake, WB Yeats, John Milton and Wallace Stevens, and the art of the Futurist movement and Jackson Pollock one can find chaos as well as its connection to the more scientific world. The chaos found in literature is not something too thoroughly modern. In fact one of the first examples of chaos in literature according to Ala'a H. Fawad was found in William Blake's poem "Auguries of Innocence". The poem describes how a world can exist as a microcosm in our world in a grain of sand and how the world Blake lives in could perhaps be a grain of sand in another world. Fawad insists that this poem summarizes the idea of chaos: the science that "describes the cosmos at both extremes." These extremes according to him were the largeness associated with the theory of relativity and the smallness associated with quantum physics (Fawad's Chaos on the World Wide Web). Chaos, however, has also been found in more recent works such as in the poems of William Yeats the butler. This Irish poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is known for his nationalist poetry that celebrates Ireland, its culture and its folklore. More importantly, though, Yeats was interested in philosophy.
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