At Peter Cameron's Blog, "Counting the things that need to be counted," the July 14, 2010 entry contains a reflective poem entitled "Millenium" which meditates on the ten digits in stanzas whose lengths count them. Here are the opening stanzas:
Millennium:
An artefact
of ten fingers;
an accident
of dark age monks’
calendar lore;
a bonanza
for marketing
and preachers on
television.
Numbers beguile –
they turn in quite
another way from
sun, moon, planets
and wheeling stars.
. . .
A regular four-syllable line length adds another level of counting to Cameron's poem. Go here for the final stanzas. In a posting on mathematics and poetry, Cameron opines on ambiguity ( a topic I want to address in an upcoming posting); meanwhile, here's a link to Cameron's view.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Counting: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . .
Labels:
ambiguity,
counting,
digits,
mathematics,
Peter Cameron,
poetry
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