Wallace Stevens

The poem seems to be about loneliness and regret. The white nightgowns that "haunt" the houses refer to brides who do not inhabit these dwellings; the descriptive colors of the absent nightgowns...

This is one of Wallace Stevens' best-known short poems. It is very evocative and the imagery is very unusual. It is understood to be a poem about death. The descriptions are very sensual and yet...

The emphasis upon color in this poem is unusual; rather than being descriptive of actual objects, the words denoting color instead seem to refer to fantasy or imagined images. The "white...

"Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight" is a beautiful, simply written poem about metaphor, art, and how we see and interact with the world. If you peruse the eNotes analytical essay linked below, you'll...

In his poetry, one critic observes, Wallace Stevens ...suggests that we live in the tension between the shapes we take as the world acts upon us and the ideas of order that our imagination imposes...

Christianity is an enormously important theme in Wallace Stevens' poem "Sunday Morning," as the very title of the poem implies. Christianity was the dominant religion of the culture in which...

This poem is about the death of an unnamed woman. It describes the funeral preparations that surround a death - the "wenches" prepare food (ice cream), the boys "bring in flowers", they prepare for...

There are many ways in which to paraphrase this quotation. Let me give you a few variations. You can say something like "In the messiness of diversity, we can find solace." Or you can say something...

When a reader attempts analysis of a poem, she must determine what is literal and what is non-literal meaning. One way to do this is to know some background on the poet and his tropes and preferred...

Though, as with all literature, there are many possible interpretations of Stevens's "Of Modern Poetry," I would argue that the "formula" he presents for verse is intended as at least partly...