Wallace Stevens
Samantha Erck
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Wallace Stevens:
Inside the Gray Flannel Suit
Rationalists, wearing square hets,
Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling,
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses-
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 …
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…llace Stevens died in 1955, but his poetry has lived on to inspire his many readers and fans. Like many great poets, his work is relevant even today. His words remain powerful, even if he is no longer here to speak them:
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
(Collected Poems p. 92-95)
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