Her letter left Stevens uncertain whether she was looking for exegesis or an apology for the editor's choice of the poem.
He continues: From time immemorial the philosophers and other scene painters have daubed the sky with dazzle paint.
[1] The reader of the poem almost hears the tread of the "finical carriers" of Rosenbloom's body in the slow march of this funeral procession.
Although the poem's heavy beats leave no doubt that Stevens' naturalism is being expressed, there is a suggestion of ineffability when the tread of the carriers "turns up the sky".
The label transcendental naturalism is not ill-suited to characterize the outlook of this and similar poems in Stevens' oeuvre.
Stevens's so-called 'pataphysics' could be viewed as a poetic redirection of the frustrated philosophical desire to know the transcendent nature of things.