 The poet's creativity in this regard is perhaps extreme, but it makes his self more "his" self, hence he finds himself "more truly and more strange".A key to the interpretation of the poem is identification of the addressee, "you", with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer being more likely candidates than either Fichte or Freud.Milton J. Bates remarks that the regal figure of Hoon is the figure least qualified by irony among the early protagonists of "Harmonium".Without a visit to Hoon in his palaz, one will not appreciate how Stevens's poems of the thirties, though they are not intimately autobiographical, might nevertheless be said to contain and discourse of himself alone.