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"Man Carrying Thing" Wallace Stevens

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"Man Carrying Thing"  
by Wallace Stevens
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The poem must resist the intelligence   

Almost successfully. Illustration:   

A brune figure in winter evening resists   

Identity. The thing he carries resists   

The most necessitous sense. Accept them, then,   

As secondary (parts not quite perceived   

Of the obvious whole, uncertain particles   

Of the certain solid, the primary free from doubt,   

Things floating like the first hundred flakes of snow   

Out of a storm we must endure all night,   

Out of a storm of secondary things),   

A horror of thoughts that suddenly are real.   

We must endure our thoughts all night, until   

The bright obvious stands motionless in cold.

 

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