The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain

"How he had recomposed the pines, shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds"

"Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion"

I believe that in this poem Stevens is kind of using the mountain and the different aspects of the mountain to explain his own life in a way. In the first line he makes it sound like he is shifting and changing different aspects of his life to meet his own goals as he moves through a life full of other expectations from society. This then leads into the next line where he talks about this unexplained completion. To me it sounds like he feels more complete knowing that he has lived his life his way and not the way everyone else expects him to. In this he has felt this completeness that others may not understand.