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Robert Buttel has indicated this poem may be an explanation of the difference between conventional decoration and artistic imagination, the latter represented, as Buttel proposes, by an allusion to
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and the otherworldly charm (a figure drifting through space) of his paintings.
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Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs
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Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
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Wallace Stevens
Harmonium
Chagall

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Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
Earthy Anecdote
Invective Against Swans
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
The Plot Against the Giant
Infanta Marina
Domination of Black
The Snow Man
The Ordinary Women
The Load Of Sugar-Cane
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Nuances of a Theme by Williams
Metaphors of a Magnifico
Ploughing on Sunday
Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
Fabliau of Florida
Doctor of Geneva

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