Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain
Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0035 |
| Summary: | Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex system of interwoven external and internal images and circular movements - may offer the persona a sense of self and home in space and time among the fragments of the broken universe. |
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| ISSN: | 2391-8179 |