La Geometrie. Poem by Michael Walker

La Geometrie.

Je demontre un theoreme et la maison s'agrandit:
les fenetres se tirent libres pour planer pres du plafond,
le plafond s'envole flottant avec un soupir.

Alors que les murs se degagent de tout
sauf la transparence, le parfum des oeillets
part avec eux. Je me trouve en plein air


et au-dessus les fenetres se sont changees en papillons,
la lumiere du soleil etincelante ou ils se sont croises.
Ils vont a quelque pointe vraie et non pas prouvee.

- ' Geometry'.Rita Dove. From 'Selected Poems', p.17.

Sunday, May 3, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: house
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A free-flowing journey of the imagination, which starts from a theorem in geometry, and ends 'at some point true and unproven'. All the house is gone from around her; the windows have become butterflies
and flown away, like the walls. The experience is surrealist, but still geometric at the beginning and end.
I think that geometry, with its points, lines and angles, is an accurate image of manmade structures in the world, though not of nature itself.Geometry does point the way to reality.
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