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"The Idea of Order at Key West" is one of modernist poet Wallace Stevens's most celebrated works. Written in 1934 and published in his 1936 collection Ideas of Order, the blank verse poem explores the power of art and imagination as well as humanity's relationship with the natural world.
The Idea of Order at Key West. By Wallace Stevens. She sang beyond the genius of the sea. The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering. Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion. Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry, That was not ours although we understood, Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
‘ The Idea of Order at Key West’ by Wallace Stevens describes the tension between an interior and exterior life and the role of artist or maker. Stanzas One to Three. The poem begins with the speaker giving the reader information about the setting. He is on a beach in Key West, Florida, and musing on the song of a woman singing alongside him.
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ (1934) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest nature poems, but it is also a celebration of the transformative power of art. But there’s a little more to the poem than this glib summary suggests. You can read ‘The Idea of Order at…
The Idea of Order at Key West" is a poem written in 1934 by modernist poet Wallace Stevens. It is one of many poems included in his book, Ideas of Order. It was also included in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
by Wallace Stevens. Start Free Trial. The Poem. PDF Cite Share. “The Idea of Order at Key West” is a meditative poem in a relaxed iambic pentameter. Its fifty-six lines are broken...
25 de abr. de 2016 · His next book, “Ideas of Order,” published thirteen years later, features what may be the finest American modern poem: “The Idea of Order at Key West.” (It gets my vote, with perfectly ...
