How Poetry and Math Intersect
I have never understood the attraction of poetry, and I spent 4 years getting a degree in Creative Writing.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to my peers about this, tried to &quot;get it.&quot; It&#x27;s something wrong with <i>me</i>, I&#x27;m not trying to come across as if I&#x27;m the only one seeing through the emperor&#x27;s clothing here. But, this first poem in the article for example (by the way, copy-pasting from this website is a fucking nightmare)<p>&gt;I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.<p>I can appreciate a clever use of vocabulary, the choice of breathing words like &quot;expand, hover, float, sigh&quot; centered around the fulcrum of &quot;jerk.&quot; Academically I get why it&#x27;s a good poem. But I feel <i>nothing</i> towards it, it doesn&#x27;t seem special to me, to the point that it seems even unnecessary.<p>Maybe someone else is here that used to be as cynical and boring as me and somehow has since &quot;gotten&quot; this art form that people have been playing around with for a couple thousand years, and is willing to share how they did it?<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m remembering specific incidents now, like of sitting around on a grassy hill on campus, smoking pot, while my peers read their favorite poems to eachother, everyone&#x27;s nodding their heads, but I&#x27;m just <i>not fucking getting it!</i><p>&gt;As a professor, she used poetry in her mathematics classes to help students to connect emotionally to mathematics...<p>how???