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"Grotesques" and "Overtones" makes strange magic: with a sword thrust into a man's right hand he creates the Warrior; with a robe and crown on a woman's brow and shoulders he makes a Queen. And through their clashing drama of love and war he moves his figures, but always escaping the obvious, always omitting

For, as he says,

I own to a real thrill when the man—or the Man-motif, as the poet puts it—rebels, crying

and Capulchard, exclaiming sardonically,

marches them through a new round of experience before the

At last, when rebellion becomes blasphemy, when the tortured grotesques "fling defiance"—

and Capulchard rises to full power, saying,

when, stripping moon and stars from the sky, he sends his beings of an hour out into the void, the thrill becomes an exaltation, a shiver of spiritual sympathy with the poet's vision.