{"id":243,"date":"2025-09-22T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=243"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:30:39","slug":"nomad-exquisite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Nomad Exquisite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Stevens loved vacationing in Florida to escape the Connecticut winters for a while.\u00a0 What is the speaker\u2019s response to the tropical imagery in this poem?\u00a0 Note the many word-repetitions in this poem.\u00a0 And note the alliteration (repeated consonants) in the last two lines.\u00a0 What is the effect of so much repetition?<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Nomad Exquisite<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>by Wallace Stevens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the immense dew of Florida<br \/>\nBrings forth<br \/>\nThe big-finned palm<br \/>\nAnd green vine angering for life,<\/p>\n<p>As the immense dew of Florida<br \/>\nBrings forth hymn and hymn<br \/>\nFrom the beholder,<br \/>\nBeholding all these green sides<br \/>\nAnd gold sides of green sides,<\/p>\n<p>And blessed mornings,<br \/>\nMeet for the eye of the young alligator,<br \/>\nAnd lightning colors<br \/>\nSo, in me, come flinging<br \/>\nForms, flames, and the flakes of flames.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Glossary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Exquisite<\/em>: highly sensitive or perceptive; having good judgment<br \/>\n<em>meet<\/em>: suitable, appropriate<\/p>\n<pre>Wallace Stevens, \"Nomad Exquisite\" from <i>Harmonium<\/i>. (New York:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Public domain.)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevens loved vacationing in Florida to escape the Connecticut winters for a while.\u00a0 What is the speaker\u2019s response to the tropical imagery in this poem?\u00a0 Note the many word-repetitions in this poem.\u00a0 And note the alliteration (repeated consonants) in the last two lines.\u00a0 What is the effect of so much repetition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[72,19,32],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wallace-stevens","tag-metaphysics","tag-plays","tag-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hartfordlit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}