English Poetry. Wallace Stevens. Metaphors of a Magnifico. Уоллес Стивенс.

Wallace Stevens (Уоллес Стивенс)

Metaphors of a Magnifico

Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.

This is old song
That will not declare itself...

Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.

That will not declare itself
Yet is certain as meaning...

The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.

The first white wall of the village...
The fruit-trees...

Wallace Stevens’s other poems:

1. Valley Candle
2. Nomad Exquisite
3. The Plot against the Giant
4. The Plain Sense of Things
5. The River of Rivers in Connecticut

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