Tea at the Palaz of Hoon (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Self, Reality, Imagination
Although many of the poems of Harmonium preach a yielding to reality, “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” is an exception. Hoon is a vaguely Eastern potentate who creates a world from his mind and takes pleasure in inhabiting it.
“Hoon” may suggest “hero-moon”; in Stevens's early poems, moon and sun translate very roughly into imagination and reality. Hoon speaks about his sense of self and world, which is virtually solipsistic—he concludes that the self is the only reality. He is enclosed in trappings of royalty, “in purple.” His majesty, even his divinity, is...
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