Questions tagged [wallace-stevens]
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), American modernist poet.
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Meaning of "No turban walks across the lessened floors" in Wallace Stevens' "The Plain Sense of Things"
In Wallace Stevens' "The Plain Sense of Things", the meaning of every sentence, the sense of every verse, every image, is clear and straightforward; nothing is impressionistic or vague - ...
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The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens quote interpretation
I'll give the whole poem for context, but I'm having trouble making complete sense of a line in the poem.
What exactly does Stevens mean by the phrase "wanted much most to be / The scholar to whom ...
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