ENGL 3007 Lecture Notes - Wallace Stevens, Ramon Fernandez
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The numbered poems given to us (really more like a group of poems; not stanzas or sections), The numbered poems given to us (really more like a group of poems; not stanzas or sections), move us to recognize a sequence which implies development. Ie: man with the blue guitar: move us to recognize a sequence which implies development. Ie: man with the blue guitar: multiple takes/attempts to do things over. multiple takes/attempts to do things over. Number 33: mimicking dante"s inferno: he divides the divine comedy into 3 sections. An attempt to renegotiate a relation to reality. between physical and spiritual world. An attempt to renegotiate a relation to reality: the idea of order at key west: We have a singing spirit figure (a disembodied thing), and her voice between spirit and body. We have a singing spirit figure (a disembodied thing), and her voice and song is interacting with an inverse ghost: the sea.