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 classifies this poem as part of the latter section in Harmonium. It demonstrates an abundance of concepts and a vigor in language and tone, reflecting the zeniths of imaginative power that Stevens sought but could not realize in his earlier compositions.