The poem
Afghanistan = (Hope)(The Graveyard) ⁄ An Empire
The value of Afghanistan is to the value of hope as the value of the graveyard is to the value of an empire.
The same poem, solved four ways
A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.
- Afghanistan = (Hope)(The Graveyard) ⁄ An Empire
- Hope = (Afghanistan)(An Empire) ⁄ The Graveyard
- The Graveyard = (An Empire)(Afghanistan) ⁄ Hope
- An Empire = (The Graveyard)(Hope) ⁄ Afghanistan