" FTP identify this poem introduced by a Shakespearean character whose fingers are on the keys of a musical instrument, a work by Wallace Stevens.
This poem quotes a similar titled work in Carman and Hoovey's Songs of Vagabondia and its fourth and final stanza describes "Death's ironic scraping" playing on the clear viol of the central figure's memory. The second stanza describes a body emerging from "the green water, clear and warm," while the third describes a noise like tambourines and attendant Byzantines who witness her shame in the uplifted flame. Featuring such memorable lines as "beauty is momentary in the mind," it begins by trying to trace "the strain waked in the elders by Susana." FTP identify this poem introduced by a Shakespearean character whose fingers are on the keys of a musical instrument, a work by Wallace Stevens.
This poem quotes a similar titled work in Carman and Hoovey's Songs of Vagabondia and its fourth and final stanza describes "Death's ironic scraping" playing on the clear viol of the central figure's memory.
Peter Quince at the Clavier