Farewell Without a Guitar (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Music or musicians, Storms, Horses, Spain or Spanish people, Autumn, Spring
The Poem
“Farewell Without a Guitar”—in which a lover accepts and laments the end of an affair—is a short lyric in five variable-meter, three-line stanzas. In typical Wallace Stevens fashion, it works essentially by indirection; that is, Stevens lets metaphors and images represent the feelings involved in the situation. The poem is nevertheless eloquent and evocative, and every nuance of feeling is shaped with subtlety.
The title begins the articulation of mood. “Farewell Without a Guitar” is an inversion of a popular title for Romantic lyric piano pieces,...
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