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Article: Stevens's The House was Quiet and the World was Calm.(Wallace Stevens poem)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Wallace Stevens writes in "The Man with the Blue Guitar" that:
Poetry is the subject of the poem.
From this the poem issues and
To this returns. (43-45) (1)
As a poet working to validate the fictive reality of language in his poems, it comes as no surprise that he would deem "Poetry" (2) the underlying and everlasting subject of the poem. This is not to undermine, however, the poetic subject Stevens presents to us in his works; as A. Walton Litz writes: "We must be careful to avoid saying that the subject matter becomes 'less important.' It has rather a different kind of importance: it is important as means: the end is the poem" (116). ...
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