The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens

Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 978-0-307-79187-0
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2011-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

THE MOTIVE FOR METAPHOR

You like it under the trees in autumn,

Because everything is half dead.

The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves

And repeats words without meaning.

In the same way, you were happy in spring,

With the half colors of quarter-things,

The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds,

The single bird, the obscure moon—

The obscure moon lighting an obscure world

Of things that would never be quite expressed,

Where you yourself were never quite yourself

And did not want nor have to be,

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