In this poem's final section, the poet asks how the glassy lights in the fishing boats mastered the night and portioned out the sea, and speaks of rearranging words into "ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
In this poem's final section, the poet asks how the glassy lights in the fishing boats mastered the night and portioned out the sea, and speaks of rearranging words into "ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds." It opens "She sang beyond the genius of the sea" and then states "The sea was not a mask" before asking "Whose spirit is this?," and includes an apostrophe to Ramon Fernandez. FTP, name this poem, which first appeared in a collection published in 1936, a work with a Floridian setting by Wallace Stevens.
In this poem's final section, the poet asks how the glassy lights in the fishing boats mastered the night and portioned out the sea, and speaks of rearranging words into "ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
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