Akoot Famous Writers

Metaphors of a Magnifico


Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.


This is old song
That will not declare itself . . .


Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.


That will not declare itself
Yet is certain as meaning . . .


The boots of the men clump
On the boards of the bridge.
The first white wall of the village
Rises through fruit-trees.
Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.


The first white wall of the village . . .
The fruit-trees . . .

Written by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

<----> SEND THIS POEM TO A FRIEND! <---->

Wallace Stevens Poets Page