Blue Guitar - Revision history

WikiSysop: /* XVII: The person has a mould. But not */

2015-07-14T20:55:49Z

‎XVII: The person has a mould. But not

WikiSysop: /* XXXIII */

2015-07-14T20:55:10Z

‎XXXIII

WikiSysop: /* XXXI */

2015-07-14T20:54:46Z

‎XXXI

WikiSysop: /* XXX: From this I shall evolve a man */

2015-07-14T20:54:30Z

‎XXX: From this I shall evolve a man

WikiSysop: /* XXXII */

2015-07-14T20:54:09Z

‎XXXII

WikiSysop: /* VIII */

2015-07-14T20:53:46Z

‎VIII

WikiSysop at 20:53, 14 July 2015

2015-07-14T20:53:24Z

WikiSysop: /* VII */

2015-07-14T20:47:06Z

‎VII

WikiSysop: at

2015-07-14T20:46:37Z

WikiSysop: /* XXIII */

2015-07-14T20:44:26Z

‎XXIII

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 </poem>
-=XVII: The person has a mould.  But not=
+=XVII: The person has a mould.  But not its animal.=
 <poem>The person has a mould. But not

@@ Line 685: / Line 685: @@
 </poem>
-=XXXIII=
+=XXXIII: That generation's dream, aviled=
 <poem>
 That generation's dream, aviled

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 </poem>
 =XXXIII=
 <poem>

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 </poem>
 =XXXI=
 <poem>

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 It must be this rhapsody or none,
 The rhapsody of things as they are.
 </poem>
 =XXXIII=

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 </poem>
-=VIII=
+=VIII: The vivid, florid, turgid sky=
 <poem>
 The vivid, florid, turgid sky,
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 I twang it out and leave it there.
 </poem>
 =IX: And the color, the overcast blue=
 <poem>

@@ Line 156: / Line 156: @@
 I twang it out and leave it there.
 </poem>
-=IX=
+=IX: And the color, the overcast blue=
 <poem>
 And the color, the overcast blue
@@ Line 176: / Line 176: @@
 The weather of his stage, himself.
 </poem>
-=X=
+=X: Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell=
 <poem>
 Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell
@@ Line 202: / Line 202: @@
 The touch that topples men and rock."
 </poem>
 =XI=
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XII=
+=XII: Tom-Tom, c'est moi.  The blue guitar=
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XIII=
+=XIII: The pale intrusions into blue=
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XIV =
+=XIV:  First one beam, then another, then =
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XV=
+=XV: Is this picture of Picasso's, this "hoard"=
 <poem>
 Is this picture of Picasso's, this "hoard
@@ Line 308: / Line 309: @@
 </poem>
-=XVI=
+=XVI: The earth is not earth but a stone=
 <poem>The earth is not earth but a stone,
@@ Line 329: / Line 330: @@
 </poem>
-=XVII=
+=XVII: The person has a mould.  But not=
 <poem>The person has a mould. But not
@@ Line 346: / Line 347: @@
 Is a worm composing on a straw. </poem>
-=XVIII=
+=XVIII: A dream (to call it a dream) in which=
 <poem>A dream (to call it a dream) in which
@@ Line 364: / Line 365: @@
 </poem>
-=XIX=
+=XIX: That I may reduce the monster to myself=
 <poem>
 That I may reduce the monster to
@@ Line 385: / Line 387: @@
 </poem>
-=XX=
+=XX: What is there in life except one's ideas?=
 <poem>
 What is there in life except one's ideas.
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 </poem>
-=XXI=
+=XXI: A substitute for all the gods=
 <poem>
@@ Line 422: / Line 424: @@
 </poem>
-=XXII=
+=XXII: Poetry is the subject of the poem=
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XXIII=
+=XXIII: A few final solutions, like a duet=
 <poem>
 A few final solutions, like a duet
@@ Line 468: / Line 471: @@
 </poem>
-=XXIV=
+=XXIV: A poem like a missal found=
 <poem>
@@ Line 487: / Line 490: @@
 </poem>
-=XXV=
+=XXV: He held the world upon his nose=
 <poem>
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 </poem>
-=XXVI=
+=XXVI: The world washed in his imagination=
 <poem>
 The world washed in his imagination,
@@ Line 533: / Line 536: @@
 </poem>
-=XXVII=
+=XXVII: It is the sea that whitens the roof=
 <poem>
 It is the sea that whitens the roof.
@@ Line 554: / Line 557: @@
 </poem>
-=XXVIII=
+=XXVIII:  I am a native in this world=
 <poem>
 I am a native in this world
@@ Line 578: / Line 581: @@
 </poem>
-=XXIX=
+=XXIX: In the cathedral, I sat there, and read=
 <poem>
 In the cathedral, I sat there, and read,
@@ Line 605: / Line 608: @@
 </poem>
-=XXX=
+=XXX:  From this I shall evolve a man=
   <poem>
 From this I shall evolve a man.
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 </poem>
-=XXXI=
+=XXXI:  How long and late the pheasant sleeps=
 <poem>
@@ Line 660: / Line 663: @@
 </poem>
-=XXXII=
+=XXXII: Throw away the lights, the definitions=
 <poem>
 Throw away the lights, the definitions,
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 </poem>
-=XXX=
+=XXX: From this I shall evolve a man=
 <poem>From this I shall evolve a man.
 This is his essence: the old fantoche

@@ Line 113: / Line 113: @@
 A composing of senses of the guitar.
 </poem>
-=VII=
+=VII: It is the sun that shares our works=
 <poem>It is the sun that shares our works.
 The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.
@@ Line 135: / Line 135: @@
 The strings are cold on the blue guitar.
 </poem>
 =VIII=
 <poem>

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-excerpted from Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar"
+Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar"
-=I=
+=I: The man bent over his guitar=
 <poem>
 The man bent over his guitar,
@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 Of things exactly as they are."
 </poem>
-=II=
+=II: I cannot bring a world quite round,=
 <poem>
 I cannot bring a world quite round,
@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
 </poem>
-=III=
+=III: Ah, but to play man number one=
 <poem>
 Ah, but to play man number one,
@@ Line 52: / Line 52: @@
 Jangling the metal of the strings…
 </poem>
-=IV=
+=IV: So that's life, then: things as they are?=
 <poem>
 So that's life, then: things as they are?
@@ Line 70: / Line 70: @@
 </poem>
-=V=
+=V: Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry=
 <poem>
 Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
@@ Line 90: / Line 90: @@
 Even in the chattering of your guitar.
 </poem>
-=VI=
+=VI: A tune beyond us as we are=
 <poem>
 A tune beyond us as we are,

@@ Line 467: / Line 467: @@
 </poem>
-=XXIV
+=XXIV=
 <poem>