This poem claims that "the sea is a form of ridicule" and that "the iceberg settings satirize / The demon that cannot be himself". It includes the image of an "old fantoche" observing the "banal suburb" of Oxidia and an expression of the desire "that
This poem claims that "the sea is a form of ridicule" and that "the iceberg settings satirize / The demon that cannot be himself". It includes the image of an "old fantoche" observing the "banal suburb" of Oxidia and an expression of the desire "that I may reduce the monster to / Myself, and then may be myself". Its final section says that we will remember "the moments that we choose to play / The imagined pine, the imagined jay". This poem's speaker asks "What is there in life except one's (*) ideas?", imagines himself as "a shadow hunched" above the title object, and laments that he "cannot bring a world quite round" . In the first of this poem's 33 sections, the title "shearsman of sorts" is asked to play a tune "of things exactly as they are". For 10 points, name this Picasso-inspired Wallace Stevens poem about a musician.
This poem claims that "the sea is a form of ridicule" and that "the iceberg settings satirize /
The Man With the Blue Guitar