The Man with the Blue Guitar
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The Man with the Blue Guitar is a long, modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between art, imagination, and reality, inspired in part by Picasso’s painting "The Old Guitarist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man with the Blue Guitar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6450644 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man with the Blue Guitar Context triple: [Wallace Stevens, notableWork, The Man with the Blue Guitar]
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A.
The Blue Guitar series
The Blue Guitar series is a group of etchings by British artist David Hockney that reinterpret themes from Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” itself inspired by Picasso.
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B.
Yer Blues
"Yer Blues" is a raw, blues-influenced rock song by The Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and noted for its heavy, anguished sound.
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C.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Blue & Lonesome
Blue & Lonesome is a 2016 studio album by The Rolling Stones that features raw, back-to-basics blues covers paying tribute to the American blues artists who inspired the band.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man with the Blue Guitar Target entity description: The Man with the Blue Guitar is a long, modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between art, imagination, and reality, inspired in part by Picasso’s painting "The Old Guitarist."
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A.
The Blue Guitar series
The Blue Guitar series is a group of etchings by British artist David Hockney that reinterpret themes from Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” itself inspired by Picasso.
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B.
Yer Blues
"Yer Blues" is a raw, blues-influenced rock song by The Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and noted for its heavy, anguished sound.
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C.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is a famous Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso depicting a gaunt, blind musician hunched over his guitar, known for its somber mood and monochromatic blue palette.
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D.
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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E.
Blue & Lonesome
Blue & Lonesome is a 2016 studio album by The Rolling Stones that features raw, back-to-basics blues covers paying tribute to the American blues artists who inspired the band.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | poem ⓘ |
| author | Wallace Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
imagination and perception
ⓘ
nature of representation ⓘ relationship between art and reality ⓘ role of the artist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| exploresConcept |
art as a form of reality-making
ⓘ
interaction of observer and world ⓘ limits of representation ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | the man with the blue guitar ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| form | long poem ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
ⓘ
philosophical poetry ⓘ |
| hasFamousLine | They said, “You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.” ⓘ |
| includedIn | The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | The Old Guitarist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByArtist | Pablo Picasso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
imagery
ⓘ
repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryInfluenceOn | later 20th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Modernism ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first-person ⓘ |
| numberOfSections | 33 ⓘ |
| periodOfComposition | 1930s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| style |
abstract
ⓘ
meditative ⓘ philosophical ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
academic scholarship
ⓘ
literary criticism ⓘ |
| symbol | blue guitar ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
tension between reality and imagination
ⓘ
transformative power of art ⓘ |
| writer | Wallace Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Subject: The Man with the Blue Guitar Description of subject: The Man with the Blue Guitar is a long, modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between art, imagination, and reality, inspired in part by Picasso’s painting "The Old Guitarist."
Referenced by (3)
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