Mishra, Dilip Kumar2022-02-282022-02-282007https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/8611The main objective of this study is to show how Wallace Stevens is handling realism to provide real pictures to the readers in his poems. Stevens rejects all notions of a fixed, stable reality. The external world, according to Stevens, is in a state of constant flux. As we are parts of this world, we can only affirm the reality by flowing with its flow. Poetry is the good embodiment of such a flowing. He rejects the orthodox Christian conception of paradise in favour of a secular paradise. The heavenly paradise as conceived by orthodox Christianity is only an illusion. Stevens, as a realist, gives objective presentation of details rather than a subjective concentration on personal feelings and imaginings. He presents unvarnished truth without regard to ideals or romance in his poems. There is a tendency to posit human beings in the center in his poems. Humans have a certain degree of free will that they can exercise to affect their situations. Therefore, Stevens' poems give the beautiful pictures of the socio-cultural realities of his time.en-USPoetryRealismThesis