Showing posts with label sonnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sonnet. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2022

Struggling to create -- slave and master . . .

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      In the sonnet below, Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) speaks of the enslavement of a writer of poetry in the effort to explain id...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Write to learn ... follow constraints ... find poems

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     Some people (myself included) take lots of notes during a lecture or other program -- for it seems that the physical activity of placin...
Monday, July 29, 2019

What is beauty? Is mathematics beautiful?

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     My thoughts have been turned to the beauty of mathematics by stumbling onto a very fine article, "Beauty Bare: The Sonnet Form, Ge...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Generating a sonnet -- human vs computer

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     News last month from UC Berkeley's School of Information described a computer that writes poetry. In particular, it writes sonnets...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

A sonnet with numbers

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     Sonnet: Now I see them     by Michael Palmer           Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.           There’s noise and laught...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A sonnet for W.R.Hamilton

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      Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was also a poet (see, for example, this sonnet in a prior posting (13 October...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Sonnets from The Voyage of the Beagle

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 The sonnet is a song of the body as well as of the mind: 14 breaths     5 heartbeats each breath A few weeks ago I had the opportuni...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Earth Day -- April 22, 2015

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Consider today the thoughtful words of this sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950):      Read history: so learn your place in Time...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Looking back . . .

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I have been visiting my hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania and not finding time to complete a new post -- and so I have looked back.  On July...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Tomorrow is Pi Day

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     Tomorrow is Pi Day and I offer no new poems but supply links to several previous posts.  Poetry of π may be found on 23 August 2010 ...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Love and Mathematics -- Please be my Valentine!

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Poet extraordinaire Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) died yesterday.   Here is a link to a wonderful eleven of her poems from Persimmon Tree . ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Sonnet -- To Science

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Edgar Allan Poe's "Sonnet -- To Science" was the "Poem-A-Day" selection of poets.org last week on September 29.  Th...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Mathematical structure and Multiple choice

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     A sonnet repeats the iambic rhythm of the heart beat (da-DUM, da-DUM, . . .) with a line length corresponding to a typical breath (5 he...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Pushkin inspires Seth -- novels in verse

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      My enjoyment of novels in verse began to thrive when a friend and I determined to get into Vikram's Seth's The Golden Gate ( ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Pushkin poetry, Markov chains

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A Markov chain is a mathematical process that can be used to answer questions such as these:           If the current letter I am reading i...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Geometry of Trees

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     Donna Masini, one of my poetry teachers at Hunter College, offered this rule of thumb for use of a particular word in a poem:  the word...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Variations of a line

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In mathematics a line plays many roles -- as in this fine poem (which is a sonnet, more or less).      Lines      by Martha Collins     ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Counting Groundhogs

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     I grew up in a town about 25 miles from Punxsutawney, PA -- and Groundhog Day on February 2 was local-news only. This was the quiet t...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Art, poetry, and mathematics -- and Rafael Alberti

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On September 23 I was privileged to hear Annalisa Crannell , mathematics professor at Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, speak o...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Ideal Geometry -- complex politics

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Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American poet, novelist, and publisher who was the son of a poet and musician (Lilian Janet Bird) and...