Wednesday, October 16, 2019

THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR - by Wallace Stevens


 


THE  MAN  WITH  THE  BLUE  GUITAR  

by  Wallace Stevens


The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green

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."

And they said then, "But play you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are...