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