The Weeping Burgher
Wallace Stevens * Track #3 On Pecksniffiana
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The Weeping Burgher by Wallace Stevens
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A poem of unusual personal engagement for Stevens– the “I” is a middle-class, contented man, bearing considerable resemblance to the poet himself.
The Weeping Burgher Annotated
It is with a strange malice
That I distort the world.
Ah! that ill humors
Should mask as white girls.
And ah! that Scaramouche
Should have a black barouche.
The sorry verities!
Yet in excess, continual,
There is cure of sorrow.
Permit that if as ghost I come
Among the people burning in me still,
I come as belle design
Of foppish line.
And I, then, tortured for old speech—
A white of wildly woven rings;
I, weeping in a calcined heart—
My hands such sharp, imagined things.
The Weeping Burgher Q&A
When did Wallace Stevens release The Weeping Burgher?
Wallace Stevens released The Weeping Burgher on Wed Oct 01 1919.