Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

A dominating principle in the poetry of Wallace Stevens is that of mutability - the belief that the universe does and should exist in a process of constant change, His use of the seasonal cycles integrates that process in both their physical appearance and as states of imaginative perception for the poet. Stevens draws a deeply thematic analogy between the relationship of imagination and reality and the flowering and unveiling of the physical world. nis poetics alternate from the first hint of string with its hope of new fictions to the wintry bareness of perceiving things exactly as they are. In so doing, the poet's constantly altering perceptions affect each season, bringing new responses and transformations to the natural world. In realizing that the poet discovers his own analogies and resemblances in the desired changes of weather and seasons, the reader is rewarded with a deeper and at once more crystallizing knowledge of his work.

Extent

99 p.

Comments

FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Identifier

FADT13843

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