 | John Carlos Rowe - 2000 - 398 pagine
...some atavistic version of Wallace Stevens's more classical "ring of men" in "Sunday Morning." who: Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn Their boisterous...might be. Naked among them. like a savage source.^' For Crane. Powhatan's tribe. the Pamunkey. an Algonquian-speaking group. could just as well be Lakota.... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe Professor of English University of California at Irvine - 2000 - 398 pagine
...some atavistic version of Wallace Stevens's more classical "ring of men" in "Sunday Morning," who: Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn Their boisterous...as a god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source.40 For Crane, Powhatan's tribe, the Pamunkey, an Algonquian-speaking group, could just as well... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2002 - 356 pagine
...it toward some future occasion of worship — with a difference. The worshippers are to chant their devotion to the sun, "Not as a god, but as a god might be." The difference seems to be that the worshipped force is an object not of belief but of pure imagination.... | |
 | Melvin Konner - 2003 - 564 pagine
...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? And then the proposed religion takes shape: Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source . . . They shall know well the heavenly fellowship Of men that perish and of summer morn. And whence... | |
 | James Hollis - 2002 - 164 pagine
...in institutional or dogmatic form, he images himself as a savage, dancing in adoration of the pagan sun: "Not as a god, but as a god might be, / naked among them, like a savage source."23 This urgency to personify the cosmos is the primal religious need to connect with the Mystery.... | |
 | Philip Jenkins - 2004 - 320 pagine
...cold abstractions of Christianity, and imagined instead pagan rituals founded in blood and ecstasy: Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...a summer morn Their boisterous devotion to the sun . . . Their chant shall be a chant of paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky. Gradually,... | |
 | Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 pagine
...beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. 90 VII Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...might be, Naked among them, like a savage source. 95 Their chant shall be a chant of paradise, Out of their blood, returning to the sky; And in their... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano - 2003 - 677 pagine
...beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. VII Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...summer morn Their boisterous devotion to the sun, 8 Not as a god, but as a god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source. Their chant shall be... | |
 | Irene Visser, Helen Wilcox - 2006 - 258 pagine
...meaning of her 'natural' spiritual experience and the bodies of the chanting men in the seventh stanza: 'Their boisterous devotion to the sun, / Not as a...paradise, / Out of their blood, returning to the sky'; It is these living, earthly bodies, one deduces from the poem, that are holy, that have become the... | |
 | Suzanne Wintsch Churchill - 2006 - 312 pagine
...Homosexual Cult of St. Sebastian, and World War I," Modernism/ 'Modernity 6, no. 2 (April 1999): 107-31. Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in...as a god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source.67 Stevens's poem counters the homoeroticism of this "orgy" by returning in the last stanza... | |
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Supple and turbulent, a ring of men Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn Their boisterous devotion to the sun, Not as a god, but as a god might be, Naked among them, like a savage source. 
