Infanta Marina

“Infanta Marina” is a poem in Wallace Stevens' Harmonium about a seaside princess. Helen Vendler (in Words Chosen Out of Desire) presents the poem as a "double scherzo" on her in the possessive sense and on of in its partitive and possessive sense. Infanta Marina of the motionsof her wristof her thoughtof the plumesof this creatureof this eveningof sailsof her fanof the seaof the evening

Infanta Marina

“Infanta Marina” is a poem in Wallace Stevens' Harmonium about a seaside princess. Helen Vendler (in Words Chosen Out of Desire) presents the poem as a "double scherzo" on her in the possessive sense and on of in its partitive and possessive sense. Infanta Marina of the motionsof her wristof her thoughtof the plumesof this creatureof this eveningof sailsof her fanof the seaof the evening