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- Title
"Shall I uncrumple this much-crumpled thing?": Wallace Stevens' Poetics of Sequence in "Sea Surface Full of Clouds."
- Authors
Putnam, Phoebe
- Abstract
This article focuses on Wallace Stevens' poetics of sequence in his poem "Sea Surface Full of Clouds." Stevens showed his investment in transforming language, tone, sensory spheres and rhythms which apply pressure against anything that manifest objective rigidity in the poem. The poet's sequence came from transient moments of conceptual contact between inner and outer worlds. Stevens allowed the enfolding motion of thought to explore more ambitious conflations of self and world in his sequences.
- Subjects
SEA Surface Full of Clouds (Poem : Stevens); STEVENS, Wallace, 1879-1955; POETICS; POETRY (Literary form); VERSIFICATION; POETS
- Publication
Wallace Stevens Journal, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0148-7132
- Publication type
Literary Criticism