Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, ...
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it is particularly hard for a translator into Italian or French to open the reader's ears to the peculiar melody Stevens composed in the first quatrain of "The Plain Sense of Things." What are we to make of this kind of melody? To ask the question of melody about Stevens's poem is ...
Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, the...
Examining the full scope of Stevens's career (from the student-poet of the nineteenth century to the award-winning poet of the Cold War years), Longenbach reveals that Stevens was not only aware of events ...
In his poem "The Plain Sense of Things," Wallace Stevens strikes out in a direction that differs greatly from the established norms and expectations of before the Modernist era. Stevens, at times, moves against traditions such as iambic pentameter, structured stanzas and rhyme schemes, while at...
These are further explored by the duality of waste as desolation and abundance in his poem 'The Plain Sense of Things'. The image of the rat in this poem and in Bunting's Briggflatts gives us access to the waste that shadows human existence, on which life depends. Bunting uses the ...