My posting for October 6 mentioned palindromes. Today we continue with the topic, including illustrations of the various ways they may influence poems. A number such as 12345654321, which reads the same if its digits are reversed, is the sort of palindrome one encounters in arithmetic. Palindromic poetry includes more variety. These sentences, taken from a list compiled by Ralph Griswold, are samples of palindromes in which the unit is a single letter.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
"Poetry, in other words, is mathematics"
From Tim Love, British poet and member of the Computer Systems Group in the Engineering Department at Cambridge University, I received this link -- National Poetry Day: unlock the mathematical secrets of verse -- to an article announcing the October 7 holiday in the UK. The article's author, Steve Jones (a professor of genetics at University College), goes so far as to begin his third paragraph with the sentence quoted as title to this posting. Follow the link and form your own view. Is mathematics truly important to poetry?
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