Art is organic, science is mechanical.

Art is organic, science is mechanical. 

Poetic language is richly connotative, (associations connected to a word is known as its connotative meaning)

while scientific language is merely denotative. serving to denote 

Science deals with facts, and art with values (whatever they are!). 

The wo/man of letters spent much of her time seeking to coat unpalatable scientific truths with the sugar of spiritual consolation. 

But Science’s chilling reports (Darwin) on the material world were not what the spiritual self, hungry for purpose and transcendent value, wanted to hear.

So you have Wordsworth claiming that Science murders as it dissects