Nomad Exquisite
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Published in Harmonium, 1923
"Nomad Exquisite" was first published in Wallace Stevens's 1923 collection Harmonium. The short lyric uses Florida's lush, tropical imagery—dew, palms, vines, alligators—to stage a surge of imaginative perception. The poem links external, sensory abundance with an inner creative outpouring, as natural colors and forms prompt the speaker's visionary language. Its placement in Harmonium associates it with Stevens's early preoccupation with imagination and the transformation of perception into poetic form.
Read Complete AnalysesAs the immense dew of Florida Brings forth The big-finned palm And green vine angering for life, As the immense dew of Florida Brings forth hymn and hymn From the beholder, Beholding all these green sides And gold sides of green sides, And blessed mornings, Meet for the eye of the young alligator, And lightning colors So, in me, comes flinging Forms, flames, and the flakes of flames.
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