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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 32, Number 2, pages 121-124 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2021_2_121

REFLECTIONS ON SIMILARITY AND SYMMETRY IN POETRY & MUSIC

Laurence I. Gould*

* Department of Physics, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford, CT 06117, U.S.A.
E-mail: lgould@hartford.edu

Abstract: Poetry and Music embroider the course of human civilization as significant forms of artistic expression. Are they alike? Some answers to this question are posed and probed by considering aspects of similarity and symmetry common to both artistic forms.

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