Summary Of An Equation For My Children

In the poem “An Equation for My Children” by Wilmer Mills, the speaker wants to find out the relationship between his family life and mathematics. Initially, the speaker reveals his fascination with Pythagoras’ work, which inspired him to go on a quest to finding out how his family life revolved around Pythagoras’ complex theorems. Along the way, the speaker finds his investigation so elusive that it feels as if he asked Pythagoras himself to calculate the mathematical equation of a “music tuning in the universe”. Despite his toilsome journey, the speaker still has high hopes that his discovery will result a heartwarming connection with his children.
Moreover, Mills’ sonnet borrows heavily from metaphysics , which states that the universe