The Plain Sense of Things. Pamela Carter Joern
Author: Pamela Carter Joern
Published Date: 01 Sep 2008
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback| 248 pages
ISBN10: 080321619X
ISBN13: 9780803216198
Dimension: 140x 216x 13.21mm| 295g
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Feature Article Wallace Stevens and Metaphysics: The Plain Sense of Things Sebastian Gardner The aim of this paper is to consider a view of the relation of art The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens delicately explores a certain dualism that he finds in creativity by exploring the conflict between creativity and "After the leaves have fallen, we return/to a plain sense of things." So we're talking about winter, which also means the end of life. This plain What, in other words, is the significance for Stevens's verse that the human subject, limned by space and time, may perceive the plain sense of things but never "The Plain Sense of Things," cast as a reflective narrative in the manner of Frost, comes as close to an "existential ordinary" as a Stevens poem will get. It attempts to close off the last route of escape from the commonplace, to exclude the troping paradox, the shimmer of Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things by. James Longenbach. 4.15 Rating details 13 ratings 1 review Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted -that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of James Longenbach's The Plain Sense of Things,about the poet Wallace Stevens,is as perceptible as most anything written about Stevens - the poet who assails the real sense of things with a high level of mental acuity. Longenbach is undeterred by the Stevensian mystique - wading right on to the hallowed ground of poetic genius. Douglas Mao, Solid Objects, 194, 212 40 (book online at ebrary). For discussion: The Plain Sense of Things, The Hermitage at the Center, To an Old The plain sense of it, without reflections, leaves, Mud, water like dirty glass, expressing silence Of a sort, silence of a rat come out to see, The great pond and its waste of the lilies, all this Had to be imagined as an inevitable knowledge, Required, as necessity requires. Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things. By James Longenbach. Read preview. Synopsis. Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted -that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea 1935," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," and "The Plain Sense of Things." In the third poem, the imagination re- emerges at precisely the point of its termination. What could it mean to be religious in a world where religion no longer retains its former authority? Posing this question for his fellow Western THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir. It is difficult even to choose the adjective For this blank cold, this sadness without cause. The great structure has become a minor house. the poems, architectural space figures not just a designed or shaped thing, The plain Sense of Things, one of Stevens' most powerful lines registers. The plain assertion of the opening clause, 'it was a real place,' opens 'sing' within the world of the senses, the thick of things the city street.