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Poem found here:  "Bantams in Pine-Woods" by Wallace Stevens This poem made me automatically search for analysis of it online.  I don't understand this poem at all.  Of course I'll put down my own thoughts, but this seems like a poem I could read from a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet who plays with meaning and the technique to go against meaning and technique.  And I think the analysis on Wikipedia goes along those lines with: The new world's "inchling" poets are defiant towards the traditional literary canon, and particularly defiant against the unnamed, arrogant, self-appointed gatekeeper of literary tradition; they are confident instead in their own free powers of innovation in the New World. Sounds about right. Anyway, the first couplet is a play on language moreso than a play on content, "Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan / of tan with henna hackles, halt!"  I think this is referring to the bantams in an overblown way -- the repetition of the ...

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage" by Wallace Stevens Originally read: May 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Wallace Stevens I knew this was an eckphrastic poem from the title and the first line.    The words that lead me to this knowledge was "nude" in the title and "shell" in the first line.  But what if this wasn't an eckphrastic piece?  Well, I might be too saturated with Wallace Stevens, Botticelli, Poetry, allusions or all of the above.  In some ways, at least for me, it's impossible to separate the poem and the allusion to the painting. However, the speaker tries to separate his words from meaning or interpretation of the painting.  "The Birth of Venus" is a pretty acclaimed piece of art, but the first lines of the poem seem a bit jarring, "But not a shell, she starts / Archaic, for the sea."  Archaic.  Obsolete.  Not so much the reverence appearing in the painting or f...

Original poem reprinted online here: "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens Originally read: December 13, 2012 More information about the Poet: Wallace Stevens I was particularly harsh with this poem when I first read it.  Well actually when I read this poem on the 13th, I probably read this poem a couple times because I think I received a Christmas Card with this poem on it.  I never looked in depth in it thought because I thought, "okay winter poem." And on first written analysis, I took the poem as a nature poem trying to have something hidden beneath it and I wrote comments like, "Bland and a bit cliche," or "There's something hidden here but somethings not fitting"  because the description of nature isn't that surprising or the technique in the poem to transfer the season to the mind has been done many times before. However, when I read the poem out loud this morning, I found that I really like this poem based on sound.  Everything flowed...