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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. First published in 1915, it is in the public domain. First published in 1915, it is in the public domain.
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.
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Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
The poem's image of God as bungling potter recalls Zarathustra's dialogue with the last pope, in which God is similarly characterized. Another Harmonium poem that clearly reflects Stevens's reading of Nietzsche is " The Surprises of the Superhuman ", which was also extracted from "Lettres d'un Soldat" for inclusion in the second edition.
Whilst working as Writer in Residence at Renfrew District Libraries in 1990, Leonard compiled Radical Renfrew: Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War, an anthology of poetry which sought to resurrect the work of long forgotten poets from the West of Scotland [19] and disprove the belief that Scotland at that time was a ...
Yet poems have roots in the poet's life. They have subjects "that are the symbols of one's self or of one of one's selves". [7] See also "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle" for the distinction between the poetry of the subject and the subject of the poem, and "The Weeping Burgher" for a more subjective perspective on the poet's craft.
About this poem Stevens wrote that it was "simply an expression of paganism". [3] Helen Vendler in the Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens summarized the poem as Stevens's search for "a systematic truth that could replace the Christianity of his churchgoing childhood." For Vendler, the stratagem which Stevens employs in attempting to ...