The Load Of Sugar-Cane
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The Load Of Sugar-Cane is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
| The Load Of Sugar-Cane
The going of the glade-boat Like water flowing Under the rainbows While the wind still whistles When they rise |
In her review of Harmonium Marianne Moore picks out "The Load of Sugar-Cane" for praise because it achieves its splendor cumulatively. It illustrates an element of his craft, his "refraining for fear of impairing [a poem's] litheness of contour, from overelaborating felicities inherent in a subject."[1] The red turban of the boatman in the final stanza is a little surprise, not what one would expect in the evidently Floridian everglades. Stevens is upsetting easy traditional expectations in this little experiment.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Moore, p. 127.
[edit] References
Moore, Marianne. "Well moused, Lion." The Dial 76 (1924). Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literature 30 (1984)
