Anecdote of Canna
Anecdote of Canna - context Summary
Published in 1923
Published in Stevens’s 1923 collection Harmonium, "Anecdote of Canna" is a short free-verse poem that captures a private visionary moment. It frames a solitary thinker, X, whose dream enlarges the canna and fills a symbolic terrace. The poem reflects Stevens’s interest in imagination, perception, and the boundary between waking and sleeping consciousness, presenting observation as a persistent, almost ritualized act.
Read Complete AnalysesHuge are the canna in the dreams of X, the mighty thought, the mighty man. They fill the terrace of his capitol. His thought sleeps not. Yet thought that wakes In sleep may never meet another thought Or thing... Now day-break comes... X promenades the dewy stones, Observes the canna with a clinging eye, Observes and then continues to observe.
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