Wallace Stevens Research Paper

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Wallace Stevens: An Outstanding Poet Wallace Stevens was one very famous poet and one of the most respected in America. e was born in Reading Pennsylvania (Poetry Foundation p, 11) He was an incredible intellectual studied in parochial schools. “At the age of 12 years he entered in public school and studied classics in Greek and Latin, and he continued his literary pursuits at Harvard University” (Poetry Foundation p, 11) Some of his knowledge was most because of his father that helped him with a library and courage his courage to love reading and became successful in his life. His ability of reading and his love of writing made him a very strong person. Stevens has several things that makes the difference between the other people who attended to Harvard …show more content…

One of his most recognized poems was “The poem In Our Climate” this poem show a lot of imagery, describes cold and clear climate with the way of life, Stevens used the empty word to create a whole cloud of pictures in our minds. The themes he liked were the showing of Imagination and Realism. Aguilera 2 In Short this man was a person who well described his thoughts and his expressions in poems. This also means that “He was also a philosopher of aesthetics, vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality” (Poetry Foundation p, 11) this are some of he believes, he used it to create his poetry. He had an amazing intellectual; this gave him the admiration of the people. Lastly our proof of his beautiful works is the critics Stevens receive from “Harold Bloom” Mr. Bloom called Stevens: “The Best and Most Representative American Poet of Our Time” (Poetry Foundation p, 11) Harold is telling that he is one of our best poets in our time, and “Harold bloom” was inspired by the poem of “The Poems of Our Climate” (Poetry Foundation p,