Wallace Stevens(October 2‚ 1879 – August 2‚ 1955) Career and Life * Stevens was born in Reading‚ Pennsylvania on October 2‚ 1879‚ and died at the age of seventy-six in Hartford‚ Connecticut on August 2‚ 1955.He attended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York law school in 1903 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1904. * The same year he met Elsie Kachel‚ a young woman from Reading‚ whom he married in 1909. They had one daughter
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Seasons: Context: • Cycles and seasons are recurrent and prominent themes within Stevens’ poetry: “When Stevens began around 1913 to write the poems that would constitute his modernist canon‚ he began at once to write poems of autumn‚ winter‚ spring‚ and summer. The presence of the seasons in his poems is so pervasive that few critics fail at least to mention it.” – J. Hillis Miller • Miller suggests that “Stevens’ pastoral predilection is born in the robust and romantic pleasures derived from the
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Afterlife: the complete emptiness Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) wrote most of his poems during the world wars period‚ which took the lives of millions of people. As a result‚ Wallace Stevens started to question the importance of religion in the modern era‚ and felt that you should enjoy your life in the present and not waste time living for an afterlife. In his poem “The Snow Man”‚ Stevens describes a harsh winter environment creating a unique dramatic situation through an effective imagery. He
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understanding of what they do. In his poem "On Modern Poetry‚" Wallace Stevens attempts to define his life’s work and his passion. To a poet "On Modern Poetry" serves as both a guidebook and a wonderful example of what makes poetics an amazing art. Stevens uses his talent to explain his talent‚ taking the reader on a wonderful journey through the process of poem creation‚ and through the human mind. The aforementioned guidelines that Wallace details in "On Modern Poetry" are dead on and may have shaped
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The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens In Stevens’ poem "The Plain Sense of Things" the first thing the reader notices is that there are five equal stanzas. The poem is neatly constructed so that each stanza contains four lines. This creates an organized‚ orderly look to the poem‚ and gives off the idea of being in control because of the form. After further examination of the poem‚ the reader discovers the gloomy nature of the poem. Another interesting feature is the length of the poem. The
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of them‚ the world. Some would argue that in searching for worldly gratification‚ people set aside their faith. Instead‚ choosing to believe in what is real to them‚ not in something imaginary. This is apparent in the poem “Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens. The audience witnesses a woman going through the contemplation of living her life or searching for a Christian paradise. Through out the poem‚ there are two voices present‚ one being the woman and the other which refers to the woman as “she”
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and that many people all over the world would like to have the same freedoms and others would like to take them all away. Each author writes their story in their own words to share their views and leave them open to our interpretations. In Wallace Stevens’ poem‚ “The Death of a Soldier” he depicts that death is swift‚ unemotional and comparative to the season of autumn. Just as autumn dies swiftly and poignantly‚ a soldier’s death is just as cold and ill fated. “As in a season of autumn. The
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world does one really stop and think‚ how much of this is real‚ and how much is just our own unique projections onto it? In the poem‚ The Snow Man‚ by Wallace Stevens‚ the poet informs the reader what it means to have a “mind of winter‚” when gazing upon a scene in nature. The question then arises is what does it mean to have mind of winter? Stevens is not exactly asking‚ but instead telling the “listener‚” that to behold something with a mind of winter‚ is to see it with absolutely no imagination
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"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens is a poem which creates a unique dramatic situation through an effective imagery‚ and which compels the reader to employ another way of thinking in order to both understand the poem and realize its very theme. The first thing that is noticeable about the poem is that it is actually just one long‚ complex sentence. There is no rhyme‚ and there is no particular meter. Each foot varies: the poem becomes a combination of iambs ("the frost‚" "and not‚" "the sound‚" "that
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The title of Wallace Stevens poem‚ "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird‚" is misleading‚ because he does not only offer thirteen ways of looking at blackbird‚ but the poem offers us many insights on how humans think. "Blackbird"‚ written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon‚ has many similarities with "Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird" other than just their titles. They use many poetic conventions to explain their poem ’s ideas‚ both writers use a blackbird to compare to humans and human
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