Buttel classifies it as one of the later poems in Harmonium, displaying "an extravagance of conception and an energy of language and tone that approach the violences of imagination that Stevens sought but had not found in the earlier poems."
Buttel categorizes it as one of the later poems in Harmonium, exhibiting "an abundance of ideas and a vigor of language and mood that resemble the extremes of imagination that Stevens aimed for but did not achieve in the earlier poems."