Re: "The candle a Saint"

General-Zod wrote:

Jordy C wrote:
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“Green is the night, green kindled and apparelled
It is she that walks among astronomers
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She strides above the rabbit and the cat,

Like a noble figure, out of the sky
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Moving among the sleepers, the men,
Those that lie chanting ‘green is the night’
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Green is the night and out of madness woven,
The self same madness of the astronomers
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And of him that sees, beyond the astronomers,
The topaz rabbit and the emerald cat,
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That sees above them, that sees rise above

them,

The noble figure, the essential shadow
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Moving and being, the image at its source,
The absurd, the archaic queen. Green is the

night”

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-Wallace Stevens

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I don’t understand the “point” or “message” of the poem of the poem, if
there is one, but I love and enjoy and appreciate the imagery in the
poem!

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Hi JC
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Well put

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 Thanks GZ