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The poem allows the reader to linger over the possibility of colors, strangeness and unusual dreams. Imagination that is absent from a mundane orderly life is represented by a dandified aesthete and an adventurous and exciting life by a drunken sailor dreaming of catching tigers in red weather. The poem's message is fairly simple.
This poem is considered one of the shorter poems included in the first book of poems published by Wallace Stevens. The poem meditates on Stevens's increasing awareness, also notably expressed in " The Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks " (1923), that there are significant differences between imaginative activity and ordinary experience.
Doggett interprets the poem differently, without imputing a dream world explored by the poet. The dweller is the self, and the dark cabin is the body. The dweller's "sense of reality is obscured as though in a dream, but beside [his] cabin is the vivid actual plantain of green reality and the sun". [2] Buttel comments on the poem's title.
"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Wallace Stevens is an important figure in 20th century American poetry. The poem was first published in 1919, it is in the public domain. [1] Wallace Stevens wrote the poem in 1918 when he was in the town of Elizabethton, Tennessee. [citation needed]
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This poem emphatically ties 'the time of year' to the relentless flow of time. Buttel interprets the poem as evoking urban emptiness under the influence of Jules Laforgue . Stevens, he argues, brought the monotony, emptiness and meaninglessness of city life into his poetry. [ 2 ]
Looking back on a historical period from its end is a dicey proposition. Even when it is clear that a turning point has been reached, it is often hard to know with any certainty which way things ...
From the Misery of Don Joost" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It is in the public domain, having been published in the journal Poetry in 1921 (volume 19, October 1921).