Harmonium. Wallace Stevens Paperback - 2001
by Wallace Stevens
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Review of Harmonium by Wallace Stevens 5 Stars Reviewed by Sean Stuart Date: 12/10/15 I recently purchased “Harmoniumâ€, a collection of poetry by the poet Wallace Stevens. It was his first book and was published in 1923, with 81 poems in the original version all varying in length. I really enjoyed reading it and found a lot of the poems to be about nature. I thought the incorporation of great imagery in the peaces of poetry to be quite enjoyable. I believe Stevens did a great job of letting some of these poems almost come to life in my head filled with images of nature and thoughts of mystery all this while still making a poem that some people could find accessible. If you can’t understand it, or you feel that its inaccessible then at least it sounds like he’s saying it well. An example of the great imagination and imagery in “Harmonium†is in the poem “Banal Soljournâ€. To me this poem creates the scene of the sun rising over a house in the woods and the trees casting a shadow on the ground as it rises, “The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.†(line 2) and as the sun rises it evaporates the moister off the plants so they can open up to the sky, “Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.†(line 4). Another poem that continues with his beautiful them of nature is “Fabliau of Floridaâ€. This poem painted a scene in my mind of a moon lit beach on a cloudy night. It has a feeling of serenity to the poem that might calm who ever is reading it. As I said before Stevens goes into detail with his imagery, in stanza 3 of “Fabliau of Florida†he writes about the top of the ocean and waves “Foam†and the horizon of the night sky meeting together to form one dark canvas. Foam and cloud are one. Sultry moon-monsters Are dissolving Part of the mystery sense can be found in the poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clockâ€. The poem leaves the mind to wonder what is happening and for some may let the imagination take over and come to a conclusion on its own. In stanzas 1-6 of “Disillusionment of Ten†he writes: The houses are haunted By white night-gowns. None are green, Or purple with green rings, Or green with yellow rings, Or yellow with blue rings. After a second read I found the mystery in it. I think he’s referencing a plane house with plane boring lives “white night-gowns†and because of these plane boring lives they won’t “dream of baboons and periwinklesâ€. I think Stevens wrote all this with the idea that people who lead boring lives and sleep in plane pajamas will not have exciting dreams, all that being said and the poem still does a great job of filling your mind with imagery. Stevens does a wonderful job of keeping a reader’s mind on it’s toes. The book “Harmonium†bringing mystery and imagination to life in the reader’s head with many writings of nature. I would say it’s a great buy for any one who enjoys poetry.
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- Title Harmonium. Wallace Stevens
- Author Wallace Stevens
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second printing
- Pages 141
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Faber & Faber, London
- Publication date May 8, 2001
- ISBN 9780571207794 / 0571207790
- Category Poetry
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.52
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