The Plot Against The Giant Analysis

Author: poem of Wallace Stevens Type: poem Views: 9

First Girl

When this yokel comes maundering,

Whetting his hacker,

I shall run before him,

Diffusing the civilest odors

Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.

It will check him.

Second Girl

I shall run before him,

Arching cloths besprinkled with colors

As small as fish-eggs.

The threads

Will abash him.

Third Girl

Oh, la...le pauvre!

I shall run before him,

With a curious puffing.

He will bend his ear then.

I shall whisper

Heavenly labials in a world of gutturals.

It will undo him.

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For years I have kept this poem in a file at work called "Management Ideas." It strikes me as a wonderful explication of the ways one might deal with those hardened sorts who shoulder their way through the world full of themselves, paying no attention to those around them. In their presence, the rest of us bend our minds to ways to moderate them using various distractions and allurements. The poem, to me, expresses the power, and frequent futility, of such efforts. The equisiteness of diffused odors, arching cloths, and heavenly labials is perfectly apparent to us, the highly evolved readers--Stephens ropes us in on the plot--but to the maundering yokel, they are likely to be foolish or just invisible. Such are the challenges of civilization, or beauty, or justice-- the hardest tasks of which are to teach us to treasure them.

| Posted on 2008-04-23 | by a guest

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