Le Monocle de Mon Oncle (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1918
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Art or artists, Religion, Death or dying, Aging
The Poem
“Le Monocle de Mon Oncle” is one of the longer poems in Wallace Stevens’s first collection, Harmonium. It consists of twelve eleven-line stanzas of flexible blank verse. Its title has multiple reverberations, as its sound play and its French title distance the poem from the author. Readers are asked to accept that they are looking through the uncle’s monocle and not the poet’s own eyes. The title turns the poem into a kind of dramatic monologue, except that the poem’s emphasis is not on characterizing the speaker, as is generally the case in a true...
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