"The poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice."
— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Author
Work Title
Publisher
Knopf
Date
1942
Metaphor
"The poem of the mind in the act of finding / What will suffice."
Metaphor in Context
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Wallace Stevens, "Of Modern Poetry," The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990) <Link to www.poetryfoundation.org>
Date of Entry
05/09/2025
