Kenneth Lincoln posited a connection to the trinity in this poem's image of three missing glass knobs. Helen Vendler created an explanatory prose narrative version arguing that the speaker feels disgust for the title figure's presence at a female neighbor's wake. That neighbor "embroidered fantails once" on a sheet that the speaker "spread as to cover her face." However, that woman's "horny feet protrude," revealing "how cold she is, and dumb." The first stanza commands "let the boys / Bring flowers in last month's newspapers" and "let be be finale of seem." Beginning "Call the roller of big cigars,/ The muscular one, and bid him whip / in ki
Kenneth Lincoln posited a connection to the trinity in this poem's image of three missing glass knobs. Helen Vendler created an explanatory prose narrative version arguing that the speaker feels disgust for the title figure's presence at a female neighbor's wake. That neighbor "embroidered fantails once" on a sheet that the speaker "spread as to cover her face." However, that woman's "horny feet protrude," revealing "how cold she is, and dumb." The first stanza commands "let the boys / Bring flowers in last month's newspapers" and "let be be finale of seem." Beginning "Call the roller of big cigars,/ The muscular one, and bid him whip / in kitchen cups concupiscent curds," FTP, name this Wallace Stevens poem whose title refers to a ruler of a certain dessert.
Kenneth Lincoln posited a connection to the trinity in this poem's image of three missing glass knobs.