Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens is one of America's most respected poets. Wallace Stevens never learned to drive, although he did have a day job as an insurance executive, so he would compose poetry walking to and from work. Wallace Steven’s uniqueness as a poet is indisputable, his perpetual brand-newness remains peripheral, always on the outside never able to go back to his poems in the same way one had preceded. He was a chief engineer of language, with an astonishing command and a sublime meticulousness in shaping his words. The extreme procedural and thematic intricacy of his work causes him to be considered a perceptively challenging lyricist. Individually Stevens can harmonize the theorist's exoteric voice with the cryptic voice of the poet as he remains metaphysically demanding nevertheless thorough. He was likewise a truth-seeker of aesthetics, dynamically reconnoitering the concept of lyrics as the absolute synthesis of the inspired imagination and impartial representation. He replaces etymological and philosophical contradictions with a trilateral agreement and drives the ruminating mind to the summit. He was recognized as a renowned abstractionist and an incendiary philosopher, and that status has remained ever since his passing. His word combinations generate eye-blurring, emblematic, quasi-opaque poetry that can effortlessly subdue perception causing his poems to resist the intelligence almost successfully.

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