...and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. 55 from The Man With the Blue Guitar The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts....as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are 5 Are changed upon the blue guitar.' And they said then, 'But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet...

...neatly at the beginning of one of Wallace Stevens' poems, where an imaginative man confronts his public: They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play...replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.'29 And so they are; and the people in Stevens' poem concede as much when they go on to ask,...

...reminds one of the painting by Picasso, The Old Guitarist (Figure 12), from Picasso's blue period. The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts....replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar."1 If the artist is capable of changing "things as they are" through the creation of imaginative...

...Blue Guitar" is to Thomas "a tale of the earth itself, and hence a source for his mission and method. The man bent over his guitar. A shearsman of sorts....guitar." And they said then. "But play, you must, A tune bevond us, vet ourselves. A tune upon the blue guitar Of things exactly as they are." A prescriptive...

...experts finally acquire a pictorial, moth-like, fiddling perfection. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 144 The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts....man replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon a blue guitar. . . 'I'hr Man with the Blue Guitar in Collected Poemi of Wallace Stevent 1937 (London:...

...Wallace Stevens (1954, p. 165) expressed a similar idea very aptly in a brief, but incisive, poem: They said, 'You have a blue guitar. You do not play...replied, 'Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.'3 Policy is always played upon a 'blue guitar' because it defines, and to some extent creates,...

...Burnshaw," the opening lines of the "Blue Guitar" ask if only a realistic art records the contemporaneous. "You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are," says the audience to the musician. The musician replies that he has no choice, since whenever history...

...optima cst ultimi; parata verba invenit, quae aliter instructa nooamfaciem habent. —Seneca Epist. 79 They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play...are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed on the blue guitar." —Wallace Stevens Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and...

...the fact that artists do much more than make poor copies. They said, "You have a blue guitar, You*do not play things as they are." The man replied, "Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar. " Wallace Stevens intended his blue guitar to stand for all the arts, but music, more than any other...

...are given the suggestion of some lack in the nature of poetry. The poet is addressed by his audience: They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are' The poet replies that the imagination must of necessity alter and distort actuality, and the audience then...