Date of Award
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract
The poetry of Wallace Stevens demonstrates a process of creativity through motion, color, and sound imagery. This process is one of creating or discovering a supreme fiction or a temporal ideal or order that will suffice for now but will continue in motion and change. A momentary blending of the imagination and reality creates this ideal poetry. Chaos, disorder, death, and decay are metaphors for the activity of decreation, which must precede creation in many poems. Nature constantly changes, but it does so with a pattern. The patterned motion in the poetry is a circular motion toward a center of form, balance, and perfection. Color imagery demonstrates a process much like the one that Newton demonstrated in the colors that make up light. Sound imagery evokes "inherited Memory" which we use to recreate a new fiction.
Extent
79 p.
Recommended Citation
Springman, Carolyn Poole, "What will suffice? The process of creating a supreme fiction: Color, sound, and motion imagery in the poetry of Wallace Stevens" (1991). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 252.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/252
Identifier
FADT14769
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters