The Load Of Sugar-Cane
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The Load Of Sugar-Cane
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"The Load Of Sugar-Cane" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. In her review of Harmonium Marianne Moore picks out "The Load of Sugar-Cane" for praise because it achieves its splendor cumulatively. It illustrates an element of his craft, his "refraining for fear of impairing [a poem's] litheness of contour, from overelaborating felicities inherent in a subject." The red turban of the boatman in the final stanza is a little surprise, not what one would expect in the ev
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Poem by Wallace Stevens
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