The poem describes a woman grieving the absence of imagination in her life. She is left with someone incapable of imagining or moving phantasies, which is akin to a death for her. The analysis explains that in this imagined world, imagination is the cause of being and sole reality. Without it, the woman is overcome with unhappiness and her tears contain a poisonous bloom of grief. The second poem depicts a girl sitting in a gray room, who finds brief flashes of color that frustrate her and cause her heart to beat furiously due to her monotonous life lacking brightness. The narrator understands the emotions she feels despite her passive actions and expressions.

1. Wallace Stevens
Poems & Analysis
Aytekin Aliyeva

2. Another Weeping Woman
Pour the unhappiness out
From your too bitter heart,
Which grieving will not sweeten.
Poison grows in this dark.
It is in the water of tears
Its black blooms rise.
The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world
Leaves you
With him for whom no phantasy moves,
And you are pierced by a death.

3. Analysis
• This world is imagination. We live in an imagined world.
And the cause of this woman’s weeping appears to be the
absence of imagination.
It is one thing to say that our imagination helps us to
shape and define our reality. But to say that our
imagination is itself the “one reality, ” and the very cause
of our being. The absence of imagination made this
woman weep.
• “With him for whom no phantasy moves.” this part of the
sentence is important. She is not left with him who
remains unmoved by a phantasy. Instead, she is left with
him “for whom” no phantasy moves. She is left outside of
the “one reality, ” with someone incapable of imagining,
incapable of “moving” a phantasy. And this incapacity is
a death. She weeps because she realizes that it is death
time.

4. Gray Room
Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-paper,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
Printed with the red branches of a red willow;
Or, with one finger,
Move the leaf in the bowl--
The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia
Beside you...
What is all this?
I know how furiously your heart is beating.

5. Analysis
A girl suffers from her monotonous life. Because
she doesn’t have any bright colors in her life.
Her life is just gray. But then she looks around
her and sees that even simple things have
bright colors and this fact frustrates her and
makes her heart beat fast.
He says “I know how furiously your heart is
beating” because this is his point of view on
what the girl is feeling. He is imagining what is
going on in her head.

6. Analysis
A girl suffers from her monotonous life. Because
she doesn’t have any bright colors in her life.
Her life is just gray. But then she looks around
her and sees that even simple things have
bright colors and this fact frustrates her and
makes her heart beat fast.
He says “I know how furiously your heart is
beating” because this is his point of view on
what the girl is feeling. He is imagining what is
going on in her head.