Hymn from a Watermelon Pavillion

Wallace Stevens * Track #66 On Harmonium

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Wallace Stevens

1923

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavillion by Wallace Stevens

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This poem is a call to action. The grandiose pavilion and mention of a “feme” hint towards the dweller being a Baron. What business would a Baron have in a cabin? The cabin is a metaphor for the dark and dusky recesses of the mind. Many are aware of existentialism, but few remember that it is not an...

Hymn from a Watermelon Pavillion Annotated

You dweller in the dark cabin,
To whom the watermelon is always purple,
Whose garden is wind and moon,

Of the two dreams, night and day,
What lover, what dreamer, would choose
The one obscured by sleep?

Here is the plantain by your door
And the best cock of red feather
That crew before the clocks.

A feme may come, leaf-green,
Whose coming may give revel
Beyond revelries of sleep,

Yes, and the blackbird spread its tail,
So that the sun may speckle,
While it creaks hail.

You dweller in the dark cabin,
Rise, since rising will not waken,
And hail, cry hail, cry hail.

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