Poetry, the Quadrivium, and the Trivium

The Trivium is part of a Medieval educational system that was designed to provide the student with a complete education. The Trivium is made up of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The other part of that educational system was called the Quadrivium — arithmetic (number), geometry, astronomy, and music.

You may be wondering what the Quadrivium could possibly do with poetry. Well, one can view…