Say that it is a crude effect, black reds,Pink yellows, orange whites, too much as they are To be anything else in the sunlight of the room.Too much as they are to be changed by metaphor,Too actual, things that in being real Make any imaginings of them lesser things. This is the beginning of the poem Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight by the American poet of quiet contemplation,Wallace Stevens.
Wallace Stevens,l read in the introduction to his collection of poems,accepted the challenge of looking long. patiently, and exactly and of dis-covering and understanding things. His poems are not a protest or a complaint against a lost law and order, nor are they the expression