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Mathematics is the Language of the Dead

March 22, 2023
By Dreamless-wonderer BRONZE, Auckland, Other
Dreamless-wonderer BRONZE, Auckland, Other
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Favorite Quote:
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche


My friend, have you ever been oppressed by

overwhelming hatred and disgust

On a supposed-to-be, peaceful afternoon

Trying to master something that’ll take you to the moon.

 

Swiftly, Cars drive past the window

Whilst you stare outside desperately like a widow

Waiting for Romeo to join you on a runaway

Because the Juliet inside is screaming mayday!

 


Sometimes the rocket science

Becomes a monster with no conscience

Ambushes you with the freshly inked tree skin

Drowning you in the so called “sea of knowledge” you’re in

 


But we all know what it looks like under disguise

As Mathematics is the Language of the Dead

Those who Dream of Immortality shall Never Reap it

Because the Daimon composed 1s and Os

Converts you into another 0


The author's comments:

A fairly lighthearted poem with a sudden twist at the end. This poem has a style simile to Emily Dickinson therefore my pen name shall be Emily Dupeson temporarily hahahahah. 

The deeper meanings of this poem can be explored in various ways such as the rise of AI and possible domination or the futility of investing in a knowledge past its prime years of development. It can be taken quite literally as the true masters of maths have all passed away. Or more abstractly how the construction of the world based on cold, unemotional numbers is desolating and overwhelming.

there is not a typo with Daimon. It actually means God which is a classic convention I have borrowed from Dickinson to lock math as a subject. The 0 at the end is like Sheer’s poem “Last Act” where it is symbolize of the mourn opening wide due to horror.

 

I don’t know if other people also write poems to express hatred for a subject but I wrote this one during class and edited it after so the emotions should be quite strong. Also if you have read til here then I’m sure you enjoyed the Romeo and Juliet reference because you are a humanities person and want to breakfree from math and read a book instead.


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