Nuances of a Theme by Williams
Template:Short description "Nuances of a Theme by Williams" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
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It's a strange courage
You give me, ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
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Shine alone, shine nakedly, shine like bronze
that reflects neither my face nor any inner part
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Lend no part to any humanity that suffuses
you in its own light.
Be not chimera of morning,
Half-man, half-star.
Be not an intelligence,
Like a widow's bird
Or an old horse.
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The italicized first lines make up a poem, "El Hombre", by Stevens' modernist contemporary William Carlos Williams. The poem was first published in Little Review 5 (1918).[1]
References
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