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Of Heaven Considered As A Tomb
"Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, '' Harmonium ''(1923). It was first published in 1921, so it is in the public domain. This is a poem about the other side of death, optimistically hallooing the departed ("the darkened ghosts") for news that they are still "about and still about", pessimistically anticipating that the burials that occur each day are a portal into nothingness, "the one abysmal night". It may be compared with "The Worms at Heaven's Gate "The Worms at Heaven's Gate" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, ''Harmonium'' (1923). It was first published in 1916Buttel, p. 188. and is therefore in the public domain. Interpretation Badroulbadour Badroulbadour / Badr ul-B ...", which presents death more naturalistically. That interpretation plays a language game, but not the one Stevens invites readers to play by asking "What word have you, interpreters...?" Notes {{Wallace Stevens 1921 poems Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his ''Collected Poems'' in 1955. Stevens's first period of writing begins with the 1923 publication of ''Harmonium'', followed by a slightly revised and amended second edition in 1930. His second period occurred in the 11 years immediately preceding the publication of his ''Transport to Summer'', when Stevens had written three volumes of poems including ''Ideas of Order'', '' The Man with the Blue Guitar'', ''Parts of a World'', along with ''Transport to Summer''. His third and final period began with the publication of '' The Auroras of Autumn'' in the early 1950s, followed by the release of his ''Collected Poems'' in 1954, a year before his death. Stevens's best-known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmonium (poetry Collection)
''Harmonium'' is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines (" Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C") (see the footnotesFrom the table of contents for ''Harmonium'' in Frank Kermode and Joan Richards, editors, ix–xi: * Earthy Anecdote * Invective Against Swans * In the Carolinas * The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage * The Plot Against the Giant * Infanta Marina * Domination of Black * The Snow Man * The Ordinary Women * The Load of Sugar-Cane * Le Monocle de Mon Oncle * Nuances of a Theme by Williams * Metaphors of a Magnifico * Ploughing on Sunday * Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges * Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores * Fabliau of Florida * The Doctor of Geneva * Another Weeping Woman * Homunculus et La Belle Etoile * The Comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halloo
''Hello'' is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is first attested in writing from 1826. Early uses ''Hello'', with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the '' Norwich Courier'' of Norwich, Connecticut. Another early use was an 1833 American book called ''The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee'', which was reprinted that same year in '' The London Literary Gazette''. The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s. Etymology According to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', ''hello'' is an alteration of ''hallo'', ''hollo'', which came from Old High German "''halâ'', ''holâ'', emphatic imperative of ''halôn'', ''holôn'' to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman". It also connects the development of ''hello'' to the influence of an earlier form, ''holla'', whose origin is in the French ''holà'' (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French ''là'' 'there'). As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worms At Heaven's Gate
"The Worms at Heaven's Gate" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, '' Harmonium'' (1923). It was first published in 1916Buttel, p. 188. and is therefore in the public domain. Interpretation Badroulbadour was a princess married to Aladdin in a fairytale from ''One Thousand and One Nights''. The mention of Heaven's Gate identifies the poem as a commentary on the resurrection of the flesh. Robert Buttel sees the poem as a specimen of Stevens' "grotesque strain" and wryly observes that "it would be difficult to find a more unique funeral procession in literature". He credits William Carlos Williams for improving the line "Within our bellies, we her chariot." from the original "Within our bellies, as a chariot." The overall impression is at once macabre and archly humorous. Thoughts of death and decay are secondary to the sound of 'Badroulbadour', the verb 'decline', and the poem's syntactic architecture. But in essence the poem conveys a sense of the transient n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Poems
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American Poems
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