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> haikus I must confess I had to think about this one for a while. Yes, haikus adhere to strict rules (as do sonnets). But here is something that adheres to
by lisper 5y ago
> haikus
I must confess I had to think about this one for a while. Yes, haikus adhere to strict rules (as do sonnets). But here is something that adheres to the rules of haiku:
foo foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo
which I think you would agree is not a haiku, or at least not a very good one (unless you're a Dadaist). There is something essential to a haiku, and to a poem in general, that is not captured by the rules.
But there are situations where the boundary between math and poetry can be very fuzzy indeed.
- bawolff 5y agoI think i would say the same about math. You can manipulate logical statements in an infinite number of ways, but only a subset are interesting. What makes an interesting/good poem is just as subjective as what makes an interesting/good theorem.
- lisper 5y agoThat's not quite true. Some math is objectively useful in ways that poems are not because the math corresponds to -- and hence allows you to accurately predict -- the behavior of physical systems.