"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Author
Date
1942
Metaphor
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
Metaphor in Context
After all the pretty contrast of life and death
Proves that these opposite things partake of one,
At least that was the theory, when bishops' books
Resolved the world. We cannot go back to that.
The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,
If one may say so. And yet relation appears,
A small relation expanding like the shade
Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill.
Proves that these opposite things partake of one,
At least that was the theory, when bishops' books
Resolved the world. We cannot go back to that.
The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind,
If one may say so. And yet relation appears,
A small relation expanding like the shade
Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Steven L. Winter’s A Clearing in the Forest (University of Chicago Press, 2001), 65.
Date of Entry
06/14/2012
