Fabliau of Florida
Fabliau of Florida - context Summary
Published in 1923's Harmonium
Published in Stevens s 1923 collection Harmonium, "Fabliau of Florida" reflects the poet s engagement with Florida s landscape and sensuous atmosphere. The short lyric turns a tropical shore into a visionary voyage, urging a phantasmagoric barque into luminous night. The poem frames a continual, almost hypnotic surf and moonlight as sources of imaginative dissolution and renewal, linking local place imagery to Stevens s broader modernist interest in perception and transformation.
Read Complete AnalysesBarque of phosphor On the palmy beach, Move outward into heaven, Into the alabasters And night blues. Foam and cloud are one. Sultry moon-monsters Are dissolving. Fill your black hull With white moonlight. There will never be an end To this droning of the surf.
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