"Bantams in Pine-Woods" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
[2] Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
The new world's "inchling" poets[3] are defiant towards the traditional literary canon, and particularly defiant against the unnamed, arrogant, self-appointed gatekeeper of literary tradition; they are confident instead in their own free powers of innovation in the New World.
The poem can be compared to "The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage" on Helen Vendler's interpretation of it as an expression of confidence in new American art.
In this reading, Chieftain Iffucan represents the canon, making a claim of universality and a privileged access to inspiration that is challenged by the Appalachian inchlings.