My email poem-a-day today from www.poets.org is "Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost (1874-1963); this 1916 poem includes some calculations and reflections based on the line:
“A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.”
Frost's poem has provoked me to thoughts of inflation and conservation; for the full poem, follow the link given with the title above. And, if your time permits, go back to previous "Christmas" postings in this blog at these links: 23 December 2013, 24 December 2012, 21 December 2012, 22 December 2011, and 2 September 2010.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
A thousand Christmas trees
Labels:
calculation,
Christmas,
conservation,
inflation,
JoAnne Growney,
mathematics,
poetry,
Robert Frost,
tree
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