The Load Of Sugar-Cane

The Load Of Sugar-Cane

The Load Of Sugar-Cane is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium".In her review of Harmonium Marianne Moore picks out "The Load of Sugar-Cane" for praise because it achieves its splendor cumulatively. It illustrates an element of his craft, his "refraining for fear of impairing [a poem's] litheness of contour, from overelaborating felicities inherent in a subject." [Moore, p. 127.] The red turban of the boatman in the final stanza is a little surprise, not what one would expect in the evidently Floridian everglades. Stevens is upsetting easy traditional expectations in this little experiment.

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Moore, Marianne. "Well moused, Lion." "The Dial" 76 (1924). Reprinted in"Twentieth Century Literature" 30 (1984)


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