Arts & Sciences

The Wind Shifts

by Wallace Stevens 1879–1955

From Harmonium (1923)

Arts & Sciences

This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
The wind shifts like this:
Like humans approaching proudly,
Like humans approaching angrily.
This is how the wind shifts:
Like a human, heavy and heavy,
Who does not care.

MLA

Stevens, Wallace. “The Wind Shifts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/63/.

Chicago

Stevens, Wallace. “The Wind Shifts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/63/.

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