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The maker’s rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. Wallace Stevens, “The Idea of Order at Key West” from Collected Poems. Copyright 1923, 1951, 1954 by Wallace Stevens.
"The Idea of Order at Key West" is one of modernist poet Wallace Stevens's most celebrated works. Written in 1934 and published in his 1936 collection Ideas of Order, the blank verse poem explores the power of art and imagination as well as humanity's relationship with the natural world.
1 de ene. de 1993 · Wallace Stevens Reads the Idea of Order at Key West/Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly and Other Poems/Cassette. 4.10. 10 ratings0 reviews. Wallace Stevens achieved international recognition as a master craftsman and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awards.
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The Idea of Order at Key West" is a poem written in 1934 by modernist poet Wallace Stevens. It is one of many poems included in his book, Ideas of Order. It was also included in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Stevens is especially attracted to devices of repetition and difference. Examples of anaphora, assonance, alliteration, and self-conscious rhyme crowd "The Idea of Order at Key West" like madcap, disembodied voices - perpetual reminders that the "idea" of order is virtually impossible to maintain.
‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ (1934) is one of Wallace Stevens’s finest nature poems, but it is also a celebration of the transformative power of art. But there’s a little more to the poem than this glib summary suggests.
‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ by Wallace Stevens is a six-stanza poem that is separated into uneven sets of lines. Stevens wrote this piece in blank verse, a very common verse form. This means that the lines are structured without a rhyme scheme but within the pattern of iambic pentameter.
