Something to consider; I think you know what I think about it.
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This is an early poem of his and, though I don't know his poems well, seems a lot more sensuous and less oblique than the others that are anthologized. But it's still fairly oblique, for all that. What is Peter Quince, a clownish figure from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," doing in the title?oblivion wrote:I love it, especially part III....but I enjoy Stevens. And I find poems and music go hand in hand...if well done. The book we're discussing on the other thread has one by M. Rukeyser called "Dream Drumming" which is executed wonderfully. I find this one to be as well. I need to find out if he had any connection to Zen. This line is exemplary: "Beauty is momentary in the mind "....
beautiful! (Good thing I wrote that comment down about it being beautiful as I'm sure I won't remember it in about 30 seconds or so...).
The Poetry Foundation (great magazine, btw) said, " Because of the extreme technical and thematic complexity of his work, Stevens was sometimes considered a willfully difficult poet. " How true, how true.DWill wrote:But it's still fairly oblique, for all that. What is Peter Quince, a clownish figure from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," doing in the title?
DWill wrote:While tying to track down the Quince connection, I read that Stevens had a diffident and apologetic attitude toward his early poems. Maybe he felt they weren't up to what he envisioned for himself. Your guess about Quince serving as a disclaimer is in line with that thought, and is pretty smart, by the way. (Sorry, I know you'd rather not hear 'pretty' used like this, but it's very ingrained in me.)