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The poem's message is fairly simple. Stevens believed that poetry and literature in general had the ability to excite and inspire. He believed that the imagination was an overlooked tool with the innate capability of distinguishing a mundane life (i.e. the lives of those who wore 'white night gowns' to bed) from an exciting and fulfilling one.
The dweller in the dark cabin may be understood to be the specifically poetical dreamer, like the old sailor in "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock". Stevens enjoins him not to sleep in his dream, but rather to explore its riches. If the sleeper rises to do so, he will not waken, for he is still in the dream.
The Plot Against the Giant" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1917, [ 1 ] so it is in the public domain. The Plot Against the Giant
Harold Bloom suggests that "the shadow of his fellows" that Stevens was trying to drive away was specifically Walt Whitman's influence, and that he did not succeed in transcending that influence. [5] Stevens eventually dismisses the idea of a colony as a kind of counterfeit of his original aspiration to overcome "locality".
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The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book, Harmonium. Originally published in 1919, it is in the public domain . [ 1 ] Despite general agreement that it is indebted to Botticelli's The Birth of Venus , there is uncertainty about the nature of the debt.
Now 80 years old, Stella Stevens became a famous face in the early 1960s with roles alongside Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis.
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