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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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