"The Wind Shifts" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
[1] This is how the wind shifts: Like the thoughts of an old human, Who still thinks eagerly And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
"The wind shifts" explains why John Gould Fletcher detected a poet out of tune with life and with his surroundings.
Buttel cites this poem as an example of Stevens's mastery of repetition within free verse.