An event marked by sex and celebration, the wake in Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is inescapably bizarre. Though one might expect an air of sobriety, importance, or - at the very least - reflection to characterize a discussion of...

The title of Wallace Stevens’ poem “Nuances of a Theme by Williams” implies that he intends to comment on, possibly celebrate, and almost certainly explore the potential distinctions and variations available in the poem by William Carlos Williams...

Wallace Stevens, it seems, never spoke a great deal about his poem “Sunday Morning.” Because Stevens gives us very little insight into his own thoughts, it is important to examine the thoughts of other critics before analyzing a poem such as “...

Wallace Stevens is known for his philosophical meditations on the dual nature of existence throughout his poetry. According to Stevens, poetry should not be concerned with either the body or the mind, but rather “an interdependence of the...

For the modernists, the linear narrative was something of a constraint on the writer’s ability to express their ideas and perceptions of the world. To discard the linear narrative, therefore, seemed the most logical solution to this problem. As...

The desolate winter setting of “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens symbolizes society’s emotional alienation. Published in 1923, the modernist poem proposes that one’s individual experience influences how they process audiovisual information. In...

"Australians are the most beach conscious people on earth. The beach has become our defining experience" (NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE OF AUSTRALIA, n.d.).

Coastal living has become an integral part of surviving the harsh and arid climate of...