Selected Poems by Wallace Stevens

Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-70123-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

ESTHÉTIQUE DU MAL

I

He was at Naples writing letters home

And, between his letters, reading paragraphs

On the sublime. Vesuvius had groaned

For a month. It was pleasant to be sitting there,

While the sultriest fulgurations, flickering,

Cast corners in the glass. He could describe

The terror of the sound because the sound

Was ancient. He tried to remember the phrases: pain

Audible at noon, pain torturing itself,

Pain killing pain on the very point of pain.

The volcano trembled in another ether,

As the body trembles at the end of life.

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