The ideas of imagination and reality differ between each individual 's mindset, constantly changing to fit the events around that person 's life. Reality isn’t just something that’s there it’s something that is morphed my our imagination to fit our circumstances. Reality isn’t some object that sits waiting nearby but it is an ever changing task for us to manipulate and procure meaning from. Our imagination, different from those around us, allows us to create our own reality that matches our perceptions of the world and how we feel about the ideas that surround us.
Reality and imagination are really just a philosophical journey that we have minimal understanding in, searching for the meaning of our worldview. Wallace Stevens, a poet who employs …show more content…
Our imagination is what finds the patterns in our world that constructs the reality we place upon it. Stevens found the ties between imagination and reality as he undertook change in his life from different jobs to changes in his family life. I find myself in similar ideology as stevens because he takes these changes and through his imagination explores the different perspectives around him. In college it 's a very freeing environment one where making your own reality isn’t difficult but what is difficult is not dispelling others perceptions of their time spent on campus as useless. In Steven’s poem “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”, he accounts for the different perspectives around him or even those concerning his own and decided that the differences in their ideas are displayed as varying levels of imagination. The lines “We agree in principle. That 's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets.” represents the underlying start of their perceptions to be the same but the varying limitation to each of their minds constructed the reality they know themselves to be true. I find myself putting more validity in Stevens’ work as it explains the difference in realities around each individual and …show more content…
Just as time moves forward and we gain seconds upon our years the realities we hold to be true start to change with the new perceptions of the world. For instance in Stevens poem “Le monocle de mon oncle” the line “Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind.” demonstrates the perceptions of age society possess versus the ideas and imagination of one man in love with his wife, her reality changes as she grew older and she failed to use her imagination to see the possibilities ahead of her. In society many lose sight of their imaginations and just accept others’ perspectives of reality as their own which creates a stagnant way of life for them as they close themselves off to the possibilities that could have been obtained if they had created a reality that matched their own unique perspective of the world. Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” displays this as well by exploring the different perspectives surrounding a blackbird from the spiritual connections of naturalism to mankind to the ideas of reality versus fantasy. In this poem Stevens explores these different perceptions creating a new reality with each one, showing the different aspects of society each create their own reality for that particular individual. It’s
Reality and imagination are really just a philosophical journey that we have minimal understanding in, searching for the meaning of our worldview. Wallace Stevens, a poet who employs …show more content…
Our imagination is what finds the patterns in our world that constructs the reality we place upon it. Stevens found the ties between imagination and reality as he undertook change in his life from different jobs to changes in his family life. I find myself in similar ideology as stevens because he takes these changes and through his imagination explores the different perspectives around him. In college it 's a very freeing environment one where making your own reality isn’t difficult but what is difficult is not dispelling others perceptions of their time spent on campus as useless. In Steven’s poem “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”, he accounts for the different perspectives around him or even those concerning his own and decided that the differences in their ideas are displayed as varying levels of imagination. The lines “We agree in principle. That 's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets.” represents the underlying start of their perceptions to be the same but the varying limitation to each of their minds constructed the reality they know themselves to be true. I find myself putting more validity in Stevens’ work as it explains the difference in realities around each individual and …show more content…
Just as time moves forward and we gain seconds upon our years the realities we hold to be true start to change with the new perceptions of the world. For instance in Stevens poem “Le monocle de mon oncle” the line “Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind.” demonstrates the perceptions of age society possess versus the ideas and imagination of one man in love with his wife, her reality changes as she grew older and she failed to use her imagination to see the possibilities ahead of her. In society many lose sight of their imaginations and just accept others’ perspectives of reality as their own which creates a stagnant way of life for them as they close themselves off to the possibilities that could have been obtained if they had created a reality that matched their own unique perspective of the world. Stevens’ poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” displays this as well by exploring the different perspectives surrounding a blackbird from the spiritual connections of naturalism to mankind to the ideas of reality versus fantasy. In this poem Stevens explores these different perceptions creating a new reality with each one, showing the different aspects of society each create their own reality for that particular individual. It’s