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The Idea of Order at Key West

Wallace Stevens

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1935
Pages
Pages 2

The sea at Key West makes a sound that means nothing: water and wind grinding at the shore, a cry that is not a human cry. Then a voice moves along the edge of it, singing, and the world rearranges itself around her.

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The Idea of Order at Key West, Wallace Stevens

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