The imagined pine, the imagined jay".
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