The Man with the Blue Guitar (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Human race, Reality, Creative process, Imagination, Guitars or guitar players, Realism, Clowns
The Poem
“The Man with the Blue Guitar” is a long poem consisting of thirty-three rather short sections in four-beat couplets, most of them unrhymed. The title, which reminds the reader of a Pablo Picasso painting by the same title, suggests a musical piece, though more in the sense of an improvisation than a formal musical composition (something that Wallace Stevens imitates effectively in “Peter Quince at the Clavier”).
The poem starts out in the third person but switches to the first person, so the piece becomes a dialogue between the guitarist and his...
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