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The TONE of this poem is its outstanding component. It's mercurial, which means it keeps changing on the reader. It begins with the confident tone of the leader, then confesses it's not really in charge after all, and says You take over. But later it comes back with at least part of its authority.A passage at the end echoes my Master WALLACE STEVENS - While we in this infinite imagination are imagining that we are more than reality. I don't know about the MORE THAN REALITY. I would say, following W.S.'s lead, IMAGINATION IS REALITY. It's as if the imagination is the verb, reality the noun, together they make the sentence which is our existence. And so ends my philosophy as an argument, but its embodiment in daily life is on-going. WE SAY GOD AND THE IMAGINATION ARE ONE. WALLACE STEVENS.