In the sea, Biscayne, there prinks
The young emerald, evening star—
Good light for drunkards, poets, widows,
And ladies soon to be married.
By this light the salty fishes
Arch in the sea like tree-branches,
Going in many directions
These are the people, the well-to-do, sensuality focussed demographic, with whom Stevens contrasts the philosophic wisdom he brings in later. 

Homunculus et La Belle Etoile