Sunday Morning | Essays and Criticism

  • Carpe Diem

    Perkins teaches American literature and film and has published several essays on American and British authors. In the following essay, Perkins examines Stevens’s unique employment of the literary motif carpe diem in this poem.

  • History and Technique

    Witcover is an editor and writer whose fiction, book reviews, and critical essays appear regularly in magazines and online. In the following essay, Witcover discusses history and technique in this poem.

  • Finding Peace in Nature

    Kryhoski is currently working as a freelance writer. She has also taught English Literature in addition to English as a Second Language overseas. In this essay, Kryhoski considers how Stevens urges the reader to find peace in nature.

  • Adam’s Dream

    In the following essay excerpt, Stern examines the “two conceptions of life” present in “Sunday Morning.”