Now by Mason William
Now, was right then,
When it was.
And here it comes again,
Right then.
The comments are comments by the students on how the poem connects to or relates to calculus.
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excerpts from student responses:
(1) The present moment is a sliver of time..the poet has the reader experience the passage of "now" twice, with "right then" in line 1 and with "right then" in line 4.In calculus we refer to "now" as an instantaneous point.
(2) This poem shows the idea of closing in on one point in time...the poem helps the reader feel this process (of trying to catch a moment.)
(3) This poem deals with the indae of instantaneous change, which is also important in the mathematical study of limits. In "Now", the speker illustrates how we cannot truly experience one instant; by the time we begin to think about the "now" moment, it has passed...in calculus we can find Vinst b through finding Mtan, but we cannot truly (measure) the velocity.
(4) In this poem, the author is trying to make the reader think about the true meaning of "now", the idea of an instant. While we are living the instant, we don't have time to think about it; an instant is a time so short, we really cannot contemplate(?) it.
,....Calculus is a study of limits.
Limits evaluate a quantity as it approaches a specific instant...
(5) ..it is impossible to experience an exact moment just as it is impossible to calculate a rate at a moment (unless we use limits)
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