American Literature / Unit 14 AML 1326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Imagination and Reality in Stevens
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The idea
Stevens's recurring question is what the mind adds to the world and what it finds there, and his poems keep testing the border. "Of Modern Poetry" says the poem of the mind must find what will suffice, which is his statement of the job in a line.
In practice
The poem must find what will suffice.
Where people slip
The abstraction is the subject itself.
Your place on the trail
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