Chocorua to Its Neighbor (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Self, Religion, Human race, Imagination, Heroes or heroism, Mountains
A poem that illustrates Stevens's growing preoccupation with the hero and the nature of heroism, “Chocorua to Its Neighbor” features a mountain discussing the human hero myth. “Chocorua” consists of twenty-six five-line stanzas of blank verse, and it develops the definition of the heroic through images from alchemy. The creation of the hero, then, is a mystical process, like the transmutation of the base metals into gold. Like alchemy, the creation of the hero is really a process of self-refinement.
The poem begins with an indication of the mountain's perspective. The...
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