In the poet Wallace Stevens’s “The Planet On The Table,” his protagonist Ariel felt that it was not important that his poetry survived, but rather that his written word “bear some lineament or character” to the world in which he lived.
Stevens, never knew New Haven attorney James F. Greenfield. But in writing about Ariel, Stevens captures the essence of a man, who like Greenfield, enjoyed writing poems, but nevertheless believed his words were wasted unless they shed meaning on the happenings of the world around him.
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