Geometry Summary
Rita Dove

Geometry Summary

This poem was published in Dove's first complete book of poems, The Yellow House on the Corner, in 1980. "Geometry" like other poems in the same volume, explores the dynamic between knowledge and imagination. Through an evolving series of increasingly surprising and fantastic dramatic images, the poem takes the reader on a swift and fanciful excursion from indisputable knowledge ("I prove a theorem") to the realm of imagination. The speaker of the poem seems...

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