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tl;dr?

• turtleyacht 3y ago
  It's all perspective: layers, details, abstraction. Sometimes it's not visual but perceptive instead, like the passing of time.
• gumby 3y ago
  It's a poem, so you kinda have to make your own interpretation but it's a famous one so lots of people have, I assume, bloviated on the topic online already. This article made me think of the poem due to lines up front: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour and A dog starvd at his Masters Gate Predicts the ruin of the State You can see a whole world in a grain of sand: the closer you look the more there is to see an understand. People spend their whole lives looking at tiny complex worlds (in, say, biology or cosmology). The flowers are full not only of chemistry but cooperation and, best of all, mathematics. And as for the dog...sometimes the significant signals aren't where you might think to look. The whole poem is a disquisition on the topic of scale discussed in a more shallow way by the article.