Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Two themes are evident in the late poem by Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." The first theme reiterates Stevens' aesthetic that the subject matter for poetry is derived from ever-changing external reality. The second theme is that in poetry there is an existential unity between language, reality and Being, an idea which is similar to the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger. Despite an apparent lack of logical coherence, these themes unify the poem's thirty-one sections and demonstrate the new form of modern poetry which interprets the purpose and function of language itself.

Extent

81 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13873

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