Bantam in Pine-Woods - By Wallace Stevens?

Bantam in Pine-Woods


By Wallace Stevens





Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan


Of tan with henna hackles, halt!





Damned universal cock, as if the sun


Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail.





Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.


Your world is you. I am my world.





You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!


Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,





Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,


And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.














Describe three effects that poet creates with sound. Suggest how they might relate to the meaning of the poem. Is there a distinctive tone or attitude here?

Bantam in Pine-Woods - By Wallace Stevens?
This article, Art As a Way of Knowing takes care of all those questions:


http://w2.byuh.edu/academics/domckay/Spe...


Tone and Attitude:


the tone is analytically off-beat. The general atmosphere is comically logical.





" Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right."


-Wallace Stevens, poet


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There are many reasons for the case for poetry, including these: (1) poetry increases one's sense of knowledge about language and visual literacy; (2) poetry contributes to the affective education of students; (3) poetry acts as a preserver of felt experiences; (4) poetry suggests flow and momentum while at the same time provides a pattern and shaping of experience, setting expectations that are sometimes fulfilled and sometimes subverted; (5) poetry teaches its readers that ambiguity is a part of life - that life is tentative, exploratory and even vague and that this is okay though it can be uncomfortable; and (6) poetry gives pleasure and is capable of generating laughter as well as feelings of well-being.


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Back to Wallace:





Of tan - often


tangs - things


hoos - ??


Your world is you. I am my world.








EFFECTS





Magical inventiveness to capture oral speech:


Invention sometimes seems doubly magical, pulling real rabbits from imaginary hats, and romantics mystify creation as unaccountable leaps of unfathomable genius from nothing much to just what the artist ordered. Still rhetoricians know, in the words of Wallace Stevens, that even “the absence of the imagination had itself to be imagined.”





Coined terms for aural effects:


Formulating inventional precepts can be fun and instructive. But as that last precept cautions, principles of invention are never automatic recipes for success. And as the two prior directives show, the reliance of principles on situational judgments means that precepts of invention can be antithetical in statement yet valid and valuable in practice. The proof is in the performance.





Rhetorical inventions as innovations in scholarly form:


Seldom are the inspirations or ingredients for a rhetorical invention as surprising in themselves as in the company they keep and the functions they perform. Inventions often take their formal elements from genres grown neglected, familiar elsewhere, rarely combined, or scarcely developed for the inquiries common in relevant fields.





Get someone to read it out loud at the supper table while you’re tying into your chicken mushroom casserole. Hilarity may or may not ensue.





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