The Comedian As The Letter C: 01 - The World Without Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 70 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 1 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

A Simple Gift Of Clarity
by Michael Mcguire
Ring Of Fire
by N. Khanyile
A Disturbing Dream
by Marlon Pitter
Crab Lice
by Marlon Pitter
Biography Of The Anonymous
by Gilbert Sordebabari
Lost In Search Of A Saved Child
by Michael Mcguire
Dark Lens
by Gilbert Sordebabari
The Ship
by Pieter Sanders
Rose Bush
by Aubrie J Chellman
Between Condemning Bad Acts And Doing Bad Things, Which One Is Worse?
by Marlon Pitter

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2415 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Nota man is the intelligence of his soil	A
The sovereign ghost As such the Socrates	B
Of snails musician of pears principium	C
And lex Sed quaeritur is this same wig	D
Of things this nincompated pedagogue	D
Preceptor to the sea Crispin at sea	E
Created in his day a touch of doubt	F
An eye most apt in gelatines and jupes	E
Berries of villages a barber's eye	G
An eye of land of simple salad beds	E
Of honest quilts the eye of Crispin hung	D
On porpoises instead of apricots	E
And on silentious porpoises whose snouts	E
Dibbled in waves that were mustachios	E
Inscrutable hair in an inscrutable world	H
	-
One eats one pat eacute even of salt quotha	I
It was not so much the lost terrestrial	J
The snug hibernal from that sea and salt	K
That century of wind in a single puff	L
What counted was mythology of self	M
Blotched out beyond unblotching Crispin	N
The lutanist of fleas the knave the thane	O
The ribboned stick the bellowing breeches cloak	D
Of China cap of Spain imperative haw	P
Of hum inquisitorial botanist	Q
And general lexicographer of mute	R
And maidenly greenhorns now beheld himself	M
A skinny sailor peering in the sea glass	E
What word split up in clickering syllables	E
And storming under multitudinous tones	E
Was name for this short shanks in all that brunt	S
Crispin was washed away by magnitude	T
The whole of life that still remained in him	C
Dwindled to one sound strumming in his ear	U
Ubiquitous concussion slap and sigh	G
Polyphony beyond his baton's thrust	V
	-
Could Crispin stem verboseness in the sea	E
The old age of a watery realist	Q
Triton dissolved in shifting diaphanes	E
Of blue and green A wordy watery age	W
That whispered to the sun's compassion made	X
A convocation nightly of the sea stars	E
And on the cropping foot ways of the moon	Y
Lay grovelling Triton incomplicate with that	Z
Which made him Triton nothing left of him	C
Except in faint memorial gesturings	E
That were like arms and shoulders in the waves	E
Here something in the rise and fall of wind	A2
That seemed hallucinating horn and here	U
A sunken voice both of remembering	D
And of forgetfulness in alternate strain	O
Just so an ancient Crispin was dissolved	B2
The valet in the tempest was annulled	C2
Bordeaux to Yucatan Havana next	D2
And then to Carolina Simple jaunt	E2
Crispin merest minuscule in the gates	E
Dejected his manner to the turbulence	E
The salt hung on his spirit like a frost	F2
The dead brine melted in him like a dew	G2
Of winter until nothing of himself	M
Remained except some starker barer self	M
In a starker barer world in which the sun	H2
Was not the sun because it never shone	I2
With bland complaisance on pale parasols	E
Beetled in chapels on the chaste bouquets	E
Against his pipping sounds a trumpet cried	J2
Celestial sneering boisterously Crispin	N
Became an introspective voyager	K2
	-
Here was the veritable ding an sich at last	L2
Crispin confronting it a vocable thing	D
But with a speech belched out of hoary darks	E
Noway resembling his a visible thing	D
And excepting negligible Triton free	E
From the unavoidable shadow of himself	M
That lay elsewhere around him Severance	E
Was clear The last distortion of romance	E
Forsook the insatiable egotist The sea	E
Severs not only lands but also selves	E
Here was no help before reality	E
Crispin beheld and Crispin was made new	G2
The imagination here could not evade	X
In poems of plums the strict austerity	E
Of one vast subjugating final tone	I2
The drenching of stale lives no more fell down	M2
What was this gaudy gusty panoply	E
Out of what swift destruction did it spring	D
It was caparison of mind and cloud	N2
And something given to make whole among	D
The ruses that were shattered by the large	O2

Wallace Stevens

The Comedian As The Letter C: 01 - The World Without Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

About The Comedian As The Letter C: 01 - The World Without Imagination

Write your comment about The Comedian As The Letter C: 01 - The World Without Imagination poem by Wallace Stevens

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets