 | Charles Doyle - 1997 - 528 pagine
...(rather, obstructing) our understanding. The same can be said of 378 Stevens at his most splendid: We live in an old chaos of the sun Or old dependency of day and night. To twist and reverse TS Eliot's remark on Dryden, this is poetry that suggests enormously but states... | |
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pagine
...feet" the poet travels "Over the seas, to silent Palestine" — backward in time to the crucifixion, "Dominion of the blood and sepulchre." She hears,...lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." Beneath the surface "Complacencies of the peignoir" we sense disturbance: What is divinity if it can... | |
 | Jo Ellen Barnett - 1999 - 356 pagine
...earth and gouged out the material which became our moon. CHAPTER 2 THE SUNDIAL AND ITS TEMPORARY HOURS We live in an old chaos of the sun Or old dependency of day and night, . . . Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning OUR ANCESTORS, OF COURSE, HAD NO IDEA OF ANY OF the things discussed... | |
 | John Llewelyn - 2000 - 296 pagine
...to 'both this and that' such as is exemplified in the lines from Wallace Stevens's 'Sunday morning': We live in an old chaos of the sun. Or old dependency...day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored free Nor is the logic here that of the exclusive autlaut, the 'either/or' of Kierkegaardian choice. It is... | |
 | Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 pagine
...consanguinity with the assumptions of a naturalized spirituality. In the words of Wallace Stevens: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency...and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free. . . . And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations... | |
 | Neil Roberts - 2003 - 652 pagine
...Instead, her meditation creates its own sabbath. A clue to the poem is a voice crying, near the end: 'The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits...lingering. It is the grave of Jesus where he lay.' The woman, meditating, has rejected organized religion. She has rejected the concept of 'life after... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - 2002 - 356 pagine
...trees, the lakes. In the last stanza, the woman does not speak in her own voice, but she hears a voice: She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice...lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." Stevens 's answer to this message is that our only life is the life we know, the planet on which we... | |
 | Sam Solecki - 2003 - 236 pagine
...contrast, could have spoken the demystifying words heard by the woman in Stevens's 'Sunday Morning': 'She hears upon that water without sound, / a voice...spirits lingering. / It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay."'17 In one of his livelier footnotes, Freud tries to console us by pointing out, 'As the poet... | |
 | Edmund White - 2006 - 373 pagine
...between the first six lines and the last two could not have been written without Wallace Stevens's "The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits...lingering./ It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay." What had happened to Merrill in the intervening years was his discovery of the theater ("Wait. No.")... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano - 2003 - 677 pagine
...summer morn. And whence they came and whither they shall go The dew upon their feet shall manifest. VIII She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice...chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, 8. The sun remained one of the central symbols tently celebrated for its beauty and life-giving in... | |
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She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, "The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay. 
