The best poems by Wallace Stevens
The
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry when it was published in 1955. Stevens’s poetry continues to be popular,
but where should the relative novice, the reader yet to discover the joys of
this great twentieth-century modernist poet, begin? This post is designed as an
introduction to ten of Wallace Stevens’s greatest poems.
‘The Emperor of Ice-Cream’. ‘The Emperor of
Ice-Cream’ may well qualify for the accolade of ‘most baffling poem of the
entire twentieth century’. Who, or what, is the Emperor
of Ice-Cream? Click on the poem’s title above to read the poem, and – if you’re
curious to learn more about the identity of this mysterious emperor, you can
read our analysis below the poem.
‘The Snow Man’. ‘The Snow Man’ is about
a rejection of the Romantic impulse to project your own feelings onto the
natural world around you, and so ties in with Stevens’s rejection of the
Keatsian aesthetic (Stevens was greatly influenced by the poetry of John Keats
early in his career). It’s difficult not to fall for the pathetic fallacy, we
might say, but that is what we should strive to do: to stop viewing winter as a
time of loss, and stop hearing notes of misery in the sound of the wind.
I did not expect to find such great poem; "The emperor of ice cream", It is really interesting how he put his thoughts in on this poem, it was kind of funny because; "who would expect such tittle?", thank you for the information!!
ResponderBorrarhe was a great poet I think his poems were interesting and I liked all the information he has because it is important to know the life of this author
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