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Dick Moores (5/15/2006 10:36:00 AM)
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You have a serious punctuation error in the first stanza of Sunday Morning.
The line,
'The day is like wide water, without sound.'
should end in a comma, not a period. Thus:
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
Upon a rug mingle to dissipate
The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.
She dreams a little, and she feels the dark
Encroachment of that old catastrophe,
As a calm darkens among water-lights.
The pungent oranges and bright, green wings
Seem things in some procession of the dead,
Winding across wide water, without sound.
The day is like wide water, without sound,
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet
Over the seas, to silent Palestine,
Dominion of the blood and sepulchre.
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Lamont Palmer (2/1/2006 1:41:00 AM)
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Stevens is quite possibly the greatest poet of the 20th century. His neologistic and beautiful words defy the limitations of the concrete world and explores the depths of the imagination. And the fact that he led a very quiet, uneventful life in CT, while creating his gorgeous poetry makes him even more fascinating. I think his reclusive life strengthened his work, intensified it. If not the greatest poet of them all, he was certainly the purest. His influence will forever be felt.
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Wallace Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In 1977 David Hockney authored a book of etchings called "The Blue Guitar: Etchings By David Hockney Who Was Inspired By Wallace Stevens Who Was Inspired By ...
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Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). | Biography | On "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" | On "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" | On "Floral Decorations for ...
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Wallace Stevens: Biography
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I drove out to the corner, and here was Wallace Stevens standing, absolutely sopping. I didn't know whether or not to stop because he never acknowledged ...
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''Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven.''
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. A High-Toned Old Christian Woman, Harmonium (1923).
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That other one wanted to think his way to life,
Sure that the ultimate poem was the mind,
Or of the mind, or of the mind in these
Elysia, these days, half earth, half mind;
Half su...
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas."
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