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Monday, August 2, 2021

Savage Stevens

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 am

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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (iv)
Stanza: 61; Line Number: 7
     They only know a savage assuagement cries
Stanza: 62; Line Number: 8
     With a savage voice; and in that cry they hear
Stanza: 64; Line Number: 10
     In a savage and subtle and simple harmony,
 
Credences of Summer (vii)
Stanza: 101; Line Number: 11
     The object, grips it in savage scrutiny,
 
Examination of the Hero in a Time of War (ii)
Stanza: 26; Line Number: 12
     And rainbow sortilege, the savage weapon
 
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab (OP)
Line Number: 12
     And savage blooms;
 
From the Journal of Crispin (II) (OP)
Stanza: 114; Line Number: 20
     Into a savage color he goes on.
 
Gubbinal
Line Number: 9
     That savage of fire,
 
Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
Title
     Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
 
Page from a Tale
Line Number: 20
     They looked back at Hans’ look with savage faces.
 
Sunday Morning (vii)
Stanza: 95; Line Number: 5
     Naked among them, like a savage source.
 
The Comedian as the Letter C, ii: Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan
Stanza: 14; Line Number: 14
     Into a savage color he went on.
 
The Man with the Blue Guitar (iii)
Stanza: 29; Line Number: 9
     To bang it from a savage blue,
 
The Pediment of Appearance
Line Number: 10
     The savage transparence. They go crying
 
The World as Meditation
Line Number: 6
     Whose mere savage presence awakens the world in which she dwells.
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Online Concordance to Wallace Stevens’s Poetry

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Gap Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:09 am

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday School

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

From 'The Politics of Experience,' by R.D. Laing

A less metaphysical approach to a "pre-form" —

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

See also "preforming" and the blue guitar
in a post of May 19, 2010.

Update of 7:11 PM ET:
More generally, see posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Metaphysics for Sunday

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 am

From Chapter 1 of R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience —

"An activity has to be understood in terms of the experience
from which it emerges. These arabesques that mysteriously
embody mathematical truths only glimpsed by a very few —
how beautiful, how exquisite — no matter that they were
the threshing and thrashing of a drowning man.

We are here beyond all questions except those of being
and nonbeing, incarnation, birth, life and death.

Creation ex nihilo  has been pronounced impossible even for
God. But we are concerned with miracles. We must hear the
music of those Braque guitars (Lorca*)."

See also Christmas Day, 2009.

*  Update of Sunday afternoon: A search for the Lorca quote yields
   no result, but Cocteau wrote that "Mon rêve, en musique, serait
   d'entendre la musique des guitares de Picasso. "
   (Oeuvres complètes , Vol. 10, p. 107)

   See also Stevens + "Blue Guitar" in this journal.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Cubist Aesthetics…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 pm

in Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar"

Author:  Ruszkowska-Buchowska, Dominika
Publication: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: 
An International Review of English Studies
Article Type: Critical essay
Date: Jan 1, 2004

See also Blue Guitar
and Cubist Language Game
as well as Dali Cube.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cubist Tune

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:29 am

For Desconvencida

Blue tesseract cover art, blue crystals in 'Bleu,' lines from 'Blue Guitar'

See also Wallace Stevens,
"The Relations between Poetry and Painting"

Monday, July 2, 2007

Monday July 2, 2007

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:28 pm

A figure like Ecclesiast/
Rugged and luminous,
 chants in the dark/
A text that is an answer,
although obscure.

— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening
in New Haven"

A Text

Time and Chance
today in the
Keystone State:

PA Lottery July 2, 2007: Mid-day 004, Evening 802


From 8/02
in 2005:

50 Years Ago
on this date, poet
Wallace Stevens died.

Memorial: at the
Wallace Stevens
Concordance,
enter center.


Result:

The Man with the Blue Guitar
line 150 (xiii.6): The heraldic center of the world

Human Arrangement
line 13: The center of transformations that

This Solitude of Cataracts
line 18: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time.

A Primitive Like an Orb
line 1 (i.1): The essential poem at the center of things,
line 87 (xi.7): At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave

Reply to Papini
line 33 (ii.15): And final. This is the center. The poet is

Study of Images II
line 7: As if the center of images had its

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
line 291 (xvii.3): It fails. The strength at the center is serious.
line 371 (xxi.11): At the center, the object of the will, this place,

Things of August
line 154 (ix.18): At the center of the unintelligible,

The Hermitage at the Center
Title: The Hermitage at the Center

Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP)
line 13 (ii.9): At the center of the mass, the haunches low,

The Sail of Ulysses (OP)
line 50 (iv.6): The center of the self, the self

Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA)
line 6 (i.6): The angel at the center of this rind,

Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA)
line 29: At last, the center of resemblance, found
line 32: Stand at the center of ideal time,


For a text on today's
mid-day number, see

  Theme and Variations.

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