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1			In this interview (http://www.jrwf.org/news/dove.html), Rita Dove describes "Geometry" as "a fusion between the rational and imaginative." How is the poem a blend of math and poetry? Support your answer with evidence from the poem.
2			Read this essay (http://www.mississippireview.com/1995/02stein.html) on Rita Dove's poetry. Do you agree with Kevin Stein that it is characteristic of Dove's works to have a "careful balancing of opposites,…[and] playfulness with history's multiple perspectives?" Point out examples in her poems that show this balancing and these historical perspectives.