On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.
In a chapter dedicated to this non-Wallace Stevens poem, Helen Vendler mapped the similarities in word choice between it and Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity." This poem bombards the reader with sensory detail with its description of a field of "hush'd, cool-rooted flowers, fragrant-eyed, blue, silver-white, and budded Tyrian." The speaker of this poem recalls a time "when holy were the haunted forest boughs, holy the air, the water, and the fire," and offers to be "Thy voice, thy lute, thy pipe, thy incense sweet / From swinged censer teeming." The speaker of this poem predicts that "branched (*) thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, instead of pines shall murmur in the wind" at the place where he will "build a fane / In some untrodden regions of my mind." The speaker of this poem resolves to keep a casement open at night, "To let the warm love in," and proclaims Phoebe and Vesper to be lower than the title mythological woman on "Olympus' faded hierarchy." For 10 points, name this poem by John Keats, addressed to the lover of Cupid.
In a chapter dedicated to this non-Wallace Stevens poem, Helen Vendler mapped the similarities in word choice between it and Milton's "
Ode to Psyche