This poem describes a figure with a "mythy mind" who "moved among us as a muttering king."
This poem describes a figure with a "mythy mind" who "moved among us as a muttering king." Another stanza of this poem depicts "a ring of men" who "chant in orgy Their boisterous devotion to the sun." One character in this poem claims to be content when birds "test the reality / Of misty fields, by their sweet questionings" shortly after the narrator asks "Shall our blood fail?" This poem ends with the image of pigeons sinking "downward to darkness, on (*) extended wings" and repeats the phrase "death is the mother of beauty." A woman in this poem imagines "her dreaming feet" travelling to "Palestine / Dominion of the blood and sepulchure" and watches "the green freedom of a cockatoo." For 10 points, name this poem that features the musings of a woman in a complacent peignoir by Wallace Stevens.
This poem describes a figure with a "mythy mind" who "moved among us as a muttering king."
"Sunday Morning"