Watermelon Pavilion, A

A Watermelon Pavilion can be found in "Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion," a Wallace Stevens poem published in Harmonium (1923). Eleanor Cook interprets the poem as a comparison of day and night dreams, in which the day dreams prevail. [1] Stevens appeals to the "dweller in the dark cabin, / To whom the watermelon is always purple" (1-2) to choose the sunlight where "the best cock of red feather" can be seen in the doorway and "the blackbird [may] spread its tail" (8, 13). [2]
==Notes==
1. Cook 73.
2. Stevens in Kermode and Richardson 71-72.
==References==
Cook, Eleanor. A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. Print.
Stevens, Wallace. "Hymn from a Watermelon Pavillion." Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose. Ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson. New York: Library of America, 1997. 71-72. Print.