pass," the instrument that determined the direction of "the sea whose tide swept through [him]" (54-55). He simultaneously found himself "more truly" and "more strange;" "truly" because he was absorbed in the world of his own imagination and "strange" because this world was both unnatural and inaccessible to the person he addresses as "you" (54-55).
"The Idea of Order on Key West" focuses on a woman, a singer and a songwriter, who transforms the way in which her listeners perceive the natural world. She sings "beyond the genius of the sea," seeming to give its sounds an intelligence that they otherwise lack; she sings what she hears and "it may be that in all her phrases stirred the grinding water and the gasping wind," but these things are changed through being uttered in words (97). Her song is not just "the dark voice of the sea" and "the meaningless plungings of water wind" (98). In it, she remakes the world:
It was her voice that made
She measured to the hour its solitude.
She was the single artificer of the world
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