Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
A dominating principle in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
is that of mutability - the belief that the universe does and
should exist in a process of constant change, His use of the
seasonal cycles integrates that process in both their
physical appearance and as states of imaginative perception
for the poet. Stevens draws a deeply thematic analogy
between the relationship of imagination and reality and the
flowering and unveiling of the physical world. nis poetics
alternate from the first hint of string with its hope of
new fictions to the wintry bareness of perceiving things
exactly as they are. In so doing, the poet's constantly
altering perceptions affect each season, bringing new
responses and transformations to the natural world. In
realizing that the poet discovers his own analogies and
resemblances in the desired changes of weather and seasons,
the reader is rewarded with a deeper and at once more
crystallizing knowledge of his work.
is that of mutability - the belief that the universe does and
should exist in a process of constant change, His use of the
seasonal cycles integrates that process in both their
physical appearance and as states of imaginative perception
for the poet. Stevens draws a deeply thematic analogy
between the relationship of imagination and reality and the
flowering and unveiling of the physical world. nis poetics
alternate from the first hint of string with its hope of
new fictions to the wintry bareness of perceiving things
exactly as they are. In so doing, the poet's constantly
altering perceptions affect each season, bringing new
responses and transformations to the natural world. In
realizing that the poet discovers his own analogies and
resemblances in the desired changes of weather and seasons,
the reader is rewarded with a deeper and at once more
crystallizing knowledge of his work.
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