What does the poem ‘Flowers’ by Wendy Cope actually mean? Is it a light-hearted and positive poem or does it have dark and negative connotations to it? Perhaps both? ‘Flowers’ by Wendy Cope is a bittersweet poem about intentions, inaction, and the memory of love. It says that thought without action isn ’t meaningless, nor is it meaningful enough – it reflects a darker aspect of us that we oft hide with good intentions. ( Young Man with A Flower Behind His Ear , Paul Gauguin, 1891) ‘Flowers ’ is a bitter-sweet poem in the truest of senses: on one side of the coin, Cope’s ex-lover cared enough to want to do an act of love for her (bringing flowers); on the other side of it, he never actually goes through with it. To show the same within the poem, the ‘ sweet ’ aspects are in bold, and the ‘ bitter ’ parts of the poem are in italics. As follows, Flowers , Wendy Cope Cope, Wendy; ‘Flowers,’ Serious Concerns , Page 4; London: Faber and Fa...
Let ’ s get into some complex fun! and delve into the idea of ... what does that even mean, and/or is such a thing even possible? How can we go about understanding what kind of number i is and how rooting itself with an imaginary base can lead to a real answer (and along the way again a newfound understanding of the concept of rooting) Read to find out. Math madness ahoy!! Before we can get to any sort of proof or deriving, we must first define our terms and concepts so as to prevent confusion and problems. Let, The number iota (i) be the root of the number negative one, i.e, ; and any complex number Z ∈ ℂ be expressed in the cartesian form as where a, b ∈ ℝ , and in the polar form as where r is the length of the radius from the origin, and such that . The n-th root of a number ω is where n, ω ∈ ℂ can be represented as ...