Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the imagined lives Last Line: Stuttering dreams ... | ||||||||
To the imagined lives Evoked by music, Creatures of horns, flutes, drums, Violins, basoons, cymbals -- Nude porters that glistened in Burma Defiling from sight; Island philosophers spent By long thought beside fountains; Big-bellied ogres curled up in the sunlight, Stuttering dreams ... | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SHAPE OF THE CORONER by WALLACE STEVENS A HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN by WALLACE STEVENS ANECDOTE OF THE JAR by WALLACE STEVENS BANTAMS IN PINE-WOODS by WALLACE STEVENS CORTEGE FOR ROSENBLOOM by WALLACE STEVENS DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK by WALLACE STEVENS FLORAL DECORATIONS FOR BANANAS by WALLACE STEVENS OF THE MANNER OF ADDRESSING CLOUDS by WALLACE STEVENS PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER by WALLACE STEVENS SUNDAY MORNING by WALLACE STEVENS |
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