Wallace Stevens: Poeticizing Poetry

Abstract

Though the subjectsof Stevens' poemsrangefromordinarylocal details to thehighly philosophical ideas,his poetryismainlyconcernedwith reality–structure of reality,which ultimately resultsinto thefinestpoetryof the century.In his poems, Stevens explicitly or implicitlytalks about poetry andalsotheorizes poetry.For him,poetryis supreme fictionand itshould provide resemblanceof reality;it should intensifyreality; it must be abstract;it must change and it must give pleasure.Notonlydoes he formulatetheory of poetry in his poems, buthealso carveshis poems with the knife of his own theoryand makesthemsupreme.