Analysis of Man’s Subjective Mind
Is “Nothing” zero?
Some ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Astrophysicist.
Whether there is a nexus
Of science and religion.
Tyson denies this.
“Objective Reality”
Is what he invokes.
His scientific mantra.
“They cannot be reconciled.”
Such audacity.
That science is objective
As a product of
Man’s subjective mind.
Itself of mythic making.
Scheme | XAXXA XBXXX BXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 11010 11101010 0100 1011010 1100010 10011 01010 11101 101010 110110 10100 1101010 10101 10101 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 346 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
This three-stanza Tanka poem, “Man’s Subjective Mind,” was composed as a result of my attorney son, Bryan, querying his siblings (and me) about a 2021 Utube post entitled “Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing” and, referring to my online poem called “Magical Zero,” asking as follows: “Is this what dad means by Zero?” Seeing my son’s texted post to his siblings, I responded with the following statement: The human mind (DeGrasse Tyson’s included) cannot contain that which cannot be contained. The All (God), being beyond comprehension, cannot be contained. And “nothing” or zero (“Magical Zero”), conceived by human mind as “nothing,” likewise cannot be contained. Hence zero, being like nothing, must be the all, the container of all. Man cannot comprehend “Nothing.” And man cannot comprehend “The All.” Thus both “ Nothing “ and “The All,” called Infinity, or The Infinite, must be of equivalent values, the Objective Alpha and the Omega, and therefore remain a great impenetrable mystery to man’s subjective mind. This newly-created poem, “Man’s Subjective Mind,” is my more robust public response posted for responses from a larger audience of readers. more »
Written on May 09, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on May 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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