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The Wind Shifts is a poem from Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetry Harmonium. It was first published in 1917 so it is in the publicdomain.The wind shifts explains why John Gould Fletcher detected a poet out of tune with life and with his surroundings. (See the main Harmonium essay.) Buttel cites this poem as an example of Stevens’s mastery of repetition within free verse.