"The world is but a canvas to our imagination," a quote by Henry David Thoreau. The meaning of this quote is: we can shape how we see the world, but that depends on what we decide to focus on. If you focus on the negatives, you may only see the negatives of the world, but if you focus on the positives, you may only see the positives of the world. While Wallace Stevens uses many metaphors in his poem, "Gubbinal", he switches from one perpective to another. He uses many words to compare the sun to a glorious object while debuting that view by saying, "The world is ugly, And the people are sad." With these back and forth between negatives and positives in Stevens' poem, his purpose is to show that those who only see good in the world
