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"The Public Square" is a poem from the sec … "The Public Square" is a poem from the secondedition (1931) of Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry,Harmonium. It was firstpublished in 1923, so it is one ofthe few poems in the collection that is not free of copyright, but itis quoted here in full as justified by fair use for scholarlycommentary. The Public Square A slash of angular blacks Like a fractured edifice That was buttressed by blue slats In a coma of the moon. A slash and the edifice fell, Pylon and pier fell down. A mountain-blue cloud arose Like a thing in which they fell, Fell slowly as when at night A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. It turned cold and silent. Then The square began to clear. The bijou of Atlas, the moon, Was last with its porcelain leer. The violence of an edifice's demolition is matched by the violence ofthe poem's language, particularly in the first two stanzas. Theslow-motion collapse is captured in the surreal atmosphere created bythe third stanza. The final stanza etches a precise image of thesquare's clearing. The harshness of the poem can be compared to the brutal encounter withBerserk in "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks", with which it sharesan architectural motif. Buttel detects the influence of Cubism.f. Buttel detects the influence of Cubism.
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A slash of angular blacks
Like a fracture … A slash of angular blacks
Like a fractured edifice
That was buttressed by blue slats
In a coma of the moon.
A slash and the edifice fell,
Pylon and pier fell down.
A mountain-blue cloud arose
Like a thing in which they fell,
Fell slowly as when at night
A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.
It turned cold and silent. Then
The square began to clear.
The bijou of Atlas, the moon,
Was last with its porcelain leer.e moon,
Was last with its porcelain leer.
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