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Question: What is Wallace Stevens trying to tell us about the power of poetry!?
The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain!.
He breathed its oxygen,
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table!.
It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,
How he had recomposed the pines,
Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds,
For the outlook that would be right,
Where he would be complete in an unexplained completion:
The exact rock where his inexactness
Would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,
Where he could lie and, gazing down at the sea,
Recognize his unique and solitary home!.
Wallace Stevens- Poet (1879-1955)Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Perhaps I am bringing my own experience too much into this read, but it made me think of how I feel when I go back and read some of my own older poetry!.!.!.!.taking me back to images and feelings I had created from my own need at the time, but forgetting about in the present!. I wonder if he, too, was reading his own works!.!.!.I think so!.
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I think that as a reader he was dealing with his inner ear in reading of other poets, that he was forced to reread to grasp the song that filled the writers head, rather than his own natural song, to him the inexactness that he saw in others writing, indeed had merit and style!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
You can create your own world in poetry!. Whether it is a mountain or sea floor it is your world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com