from The Man with the Blue Guitar
By Wallace Stevens

Takia Moore
Arlissia Shapherd
Erricka Collins
Briana Means
Advanced English 11
May 2, 2014

" A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are"

The guitarist is saying that what is written on a sheet of music can be altered to suit the whims of the guitarist. It can also means that we do not have to conform with the accepted, but can go in our own direction if we so choose.

Metaphor:
Musicians & Poets
1.) guitar- instrument for the musician
2.) creates a new reality as a perception
3.) expose the demands of realism
4.) creates imagination
5.) provides the metaphor of music

SENSE : FEEL

• Lazy
• Sad
• Leaden
• Dreary
• Dead

Acrostic Poem
B - Bent
L -
U -
E-

Haiku

A shearsman of sorts

You don't play things as they are

A tune beyond us

Untitled Slide

ONOMATOPOEIA: GRUNT

• The man bent over his guitar
• Sad about things aren't being played as they are
• Things are changed upon the blue guitar

THE END