Wallace Stevens
Rationalists, wearing square hets, As for example, the ellipse of the half moon- Rationalists would wear sombreros. "Six Significant Landscapes" (Collected Poems p.73-75) Wallace Stevens is considerd one of the most important poets of this century. His style was unique and diffrent. The way he used words to optain the reality of something that can't be touched, is an amazing and brilant talent. Stevens was a very successful lawer and business man as well as a great peot. We usually think of peots and artists as "starving artists." Stevens was a very accommplished lawer and was still able to write beautifull peotry. His peoms useually contadicted his lifestile, but that might be were he got his insperation. He had a wife, family, and career, he had a very queit lifestyle. But, his peotry is very loud and abstract. Wallace Stevens was born in 1879, in Reading, Pennsylvania. As a child, he started out at parochial schools, and late
It is a theatre floating through the clouds, Not all of Wallace Stevens' poems are difficult. He used simpler language in some poems, while still getting the point across to the reader. One poem that I like which is more simple is from Harmonium: He wanted and looked for a final refuge, the Harvard Monthly. After leaving college, he moved to New York City. He worked as a journalist, and considered a literary career. But, his father encouraged Stevens to become a more practical career in the law business. He worked as a lawyer for a few years in New York. He worked at different firms and then at the Fidelity and Deposit Company. He finally The leaves were falling like notes from a piano... ...He walked with his year-old boy on his shoulder. Like humans approaching proudly, Like humans approaching angrily. As mentioned earlier, Wallace Stevens' work reflected his life in many
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