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The Man With The Blue Guitar. The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are. Are changed upon the blue guitar.' And they said then, 'But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves, A tune upon the blue guitar.
The Man With the Blue Guitar is a poem published in 1937 by Wallace Stevens. It is divided into thirty-three brief sections, or cantos.
The Man with the Blue Guitar. By Wallace Stevens. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (May 1937) Browse all issues back to 1912.
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In Wallace Stevens’ iconic poem, “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” the titular instrument takes on a profound symbolic significance. The blue guitar, with its vibrant hue and melodic strings, becomes a metaphor for the power of art and the human desire for creative expression.
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Overview. Man with the Blue Guitar. Quick Reference. Title poem of a collection by Wallace Stevens, published in 1937. Divided into 33 parts, the poem, in four-stress unrhymed couplets, is constructed like variations played on a guitar.
