Alternative Material for LT 110 Midterm

To my students in Philippine Literature who cannot get hold of the readings:

you might want to consider using the following poems in answering the question I posted in the previous messages. Take note that you have to use the Literary or formal perspective and that you have to use all the elements of poetry.

FIVE MATH POEMSby Eileen Tupaz
i'm tired of being a zero vector

i'm tired of being a zero vector
with no direction
no dimension
and no magnitude;
what i need is another element
- but that would be
a contradiction
of my definition

soulmates

we are all of us
nonsingular creatures
whose identities
must be affirmed
before our inverses
can be found

conformity

why must life
be a diagonal matrix?
where every other path
that deviates from the main
is an unacceptable
- zero
[ ]

we are born
as identity matrices
[nonzero]
[nonempty]

a subset
of the complexity
that is the universe
until fate hands us a scalar
from the twin ends of infinity
and we grow in magnitude
to become universes
- ourselves

breaking point

a vector
is a scalar
that has been pushed
- too far