The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens

The Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens

Author:Wallace Stevens [Stevens, Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79066-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-04-26T16:00:00+00:00


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SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER

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O juventes, O filii, he contemplates

A wholly artificial nature, in which

The profusion of metaphor has been increased.

It is something on a table that he sees,

The root of a form, as of this fruit, a fund,

The angel at the center of this rind,

This husk of Cuba, tufted emerald,

Himself, may be, the irreducible X

At the bottom of imagined artifice,

Its inhabitant and elect expositor.

It is as if there were three planets: the sun,

The moon and the imagination, or, say,



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