<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex system of interwoven external and internal images and circular movements - may offer the persona a sense of self and home in space and time among the fragments of the broken universe. </p></abstract>

Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex system of interwoven external and internal images and circular movements - may offer the persona a sense of self and home in space and time among the fragments of the broken universe.

Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) Department of Humanities

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as...

Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 55 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0035

Keywords
Stevens, poetry, metatext, transcendental

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Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 55 - 63

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0035

KeywordsStevens, poetry, metatext, transcendental

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Stevens, poetry, metatext, transcendental