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listening to a guitarist who drones on and on—the whole proceedings rendered "faintly or overtly repellent". Milton J. Bates speaks of the "Ti-lill-o" of titillation, the guitars as
Hollywood fantasies, "beta b and gamma g" as a love scene between a boy and a girl, the women as leading humdrum and sexually unfulfilled lives.
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Stevens' use of the verb "to fub" may be an interpretive choice-point. If that use isn't taken as ironically dismissing the romantic aura surrounding moonlight's effect on candelabras, there is an opening for the "refreshment of reality" reading favored by Buttel as well as
Sukenick. "Presumably",
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In support of the ironic reading, the stanza that includes the inscrutable line "Ti-lill-o!" suggests insipid observers of vulgar soap-opera art. The surrounding stanzas find the women bathed in silly moonlight that "fubs the girandoles", leaning out from "the vapid haze of the window-bays",
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Opinion is divided about whether the poem expresses
Stevens' distaste for romanticism in art, a "mordant satire...of all the things that other poems hold sacred"; or whether the poem is about "the refreshment that art, in its palace, gives to reality".
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216:Buttel, Robert. "Teasing the reader into
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121: Then from their poverty they rose,
103: How explicit the coiffures became,
42: Then from their poverty they rose,
748:Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
213:. 1985: University of California Press.
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123: From dry guitars, and to catarrhs
62: Mumbled zay-zay and a-zay, a-zay.
60: The lacquered loges huddled there
44: From dry catarrhs, and to guitars
240:. 1984: University of Tennessee Press.
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678:The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
114: Puissant speech, alike in each,
96: Rumbled a-day and a-day, a-day.
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211:Wallace Stevens: A mythology of self
231:Wallace Stevens: musing the obscure
867:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
517:Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
496:On the Manner of Addressing Clouds
233:. 1967: New York University Press.
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51: They flung monotony behind,
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127: Through the palace walls.
100: Rose on the beachy floors.
783:The Surprises of the Superhuman
734:Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
503:Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
468:Anecdote of Men by the Thousand
391:Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
91: And they read right long.
73: As they leaned and looked
48: Through the palace walls.
587:Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
482:Floral Decorations for Bananas
363:Nuances of a Theme by Williams
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601:The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
412:Homunculus et la Belle Etoile
112: Insinuations of desire,
475:The Apostrophe to Vincentine
426:From the Misery of Don Joost
419:The Comedian as the Letter C
118: To the wickless halls.
78: At beta b and gamma g,
741:Peter Quince at the Clavier
727:To the One of Fictive Music
699:Colloquy with a Polish Aunt
531:The Place of the Solitaires
223:The Wallace Stevens Journal
82: The canting curlicues
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622:Six Significant Landscapes
447:The Worms at Heaven's Gate
314:The Plot Against the Giant
238:Words Chosen Out Of Desire
57: The nocturnal halls.
924:Poetry by Wallace Stevens
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27:'s first book of poetry,
580:Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
566:The Emperor of Ice-Cream
559:Depression Before Spring
510:Of the Surface of Things
440:Last Looks at the Lilacs
433:O Florida, Venereal Soil
370:Metaphors of a Magnifico
109: Of the civil fans!
929:20th-century poem stubs
356:Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
300:Invective Against Swans
16:Poem by Wallace Stevens
769:The Death of a Soldier
664:Cortège for Rosenbloom
349:The Load Of Sugar-Cane
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116: Cried quittance
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643:Palace of the Babies
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811:Anatomy of Monotony
636:Anecdote of the Jar
608:Stars at Tallapoosa
538:The Weeping Burgher
377:Ploughing on Sunday
328:Domination of Black
98: The moonlight
71: Were tranquil
398:Fabliau of Florida
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229:Sukenick, Ronald.
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55: They crowded
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