Megalfrere

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"Megalfrere" appears in Stevens' poem "Chocorua to its Neighbor," a poem that explores the possibility of the "total man" as a unifying force. The speaker in the poem, a mountain, contends that this figure is "Not father, but bare brother, megalfrere...," (XXI, 1) suggesting that he is not deified but, rather, a "common self" among other common selves. The idiomatic "megalfrere" seems to be a compounding of 'mega,' or ultimate, with 'frère,' French for brother, which together sums up the speakers conception of this unifying figure. He is both ultimate in his capabilities, yet resolutely human and contingent, speaking "humanly from the height or from the depth/ Of human things" (XIX, 4-5).