Mia Yi
Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley
Pd 2
13 May 2016
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to his success in the field of literature.
Wallace Stevens was born in 1879. He was a very smart and talented child. Some say that “ [Wallace Stevens] proved to be an intellectual driven toward literary pursuit since young” (Charkin, 1094). Later, he attended …show more content…
He was strongly influenced by early nineteenth century English Romantic poets. Some describes him as “a modern Romantic who transformed and extended the English Romantic tradition as he accommodate it to the twentieth century world”(Allan Charkin). Stevens was also influenced by his parents in many aspects. His father was a hardworking and successful attorney and businessman, who occasionally published poetry and proses in the local papers. Along with his mother’s job as a school teacher, Wallace Stevens had a good intellectual environment growth (Allan …show more content…
His common themes of his work is Death (The Emperor of ice-cream). People describes his work as modernism with a truly original poetic voice: “[Wallace Stevens’s work] is deeply intellectual yet also sometimes comical, and always willing to take poetry to a place beyond comfort to reveal the depths of the human condition”(The Emperor of ice-cream). The Emperor of Ice-Cream is one of the best-known works of Wallace Stevens, reported one of his favorites (The Emperor of ice-cream). However, It is not as cheerful as what its title might seem to imply. It is a serious poem that leaves readers sad for the dead woman and hoping that the ice cream of the title is an indicator that life offers better than what the poem describes”( The Emperor of
Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley
Pd 2
13 May 2016
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to his success in the field of literature.
Wallace Stevens was born in 1879. He was a very smart and talented child. Some say that “ [Wallace Stevens] proved to be an intellectual driven toward literary pursuit since young” (Charkin, 1094). Later, he attended …show more content…
He was strongly influenced by early nineteenth century English Romantic poets. Some describes him as “a modern Romantic who transformed and extended the English Romantic tradition as he accommodate it to the twentieth century world”(Allan Charkin). Stevens was also influenced by his parents in many aspects. His father was a hardworking and successful attorney and businessman, who occasionally published poetry and proses in the local papers. Along with his mother’s job as a school teacher, Wallace Stevens had a good intellectual environment growth (Allan …show more content…
His common themes of his work is Death (The Emperor of ice-cream). People describes his work as modernism with a truly original poetic voice: “[Wallace Stevens’s work] is deeply intellectual yet also sometimes comical, and always willing to take poetry to a place beyond comfort to reveal the depths of the human condition”(The Emperor of ice-cream). The Emperor of Ice-Cream is one of the best-known works of Wallace Stevens, reported one of his favorites (The Emperor of ice-cream). However, It is not as cheerful as what its title might seem to imply. It is a serious poem that leaves readers sad for the dead woman and hoping that the ice cream of the title is an indicator that life offers better than what the poem describes”( The Emperor of