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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CURTAINS IN THE HOUSE OF THE METAPHYSICIAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
Subject(s): Metaphysics
First Line: It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
Subject(s): Metaphysics
It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
Is full of long motions; as the ponderous
Is full of long motions; as the ponderous
Deflations of distance; or as clouds
Deflations of distance; or as clouds
Inseparable from their afternoons;
Inseparable from their afternoons;
Or the changing of light, the dropping
Or the changing of light, the dropping
Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude
Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude
Of night, in which all motion
Is beyond us, as the firmament,
Up-rising and down-falling, bares
The last largeness, bold to see.
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