The poem
Universal Dream = (Personal Myth)(Universal Myth) ⁄ Cultural Dream
The value of a universal dream is to the value of a personal myth as the value of a universal myth is to the value of a cultural dream.
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.
- Universal Dream = (Personal Myth)(Universal Myth) ⁄ Cultural Dream
- Personal Myth = (Universal Dream)(Cultural Dream) ⁄ Universal Myth
- Universal Myth = (Cultural Dream)(Universal Dream) ⁄ Personal Myth
- Cultural Dream = (Universal Myth)(Personal Myth) ⁄ Universal Dream