EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Wallace Stevens, Subitism, Cubism
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Short life, one stanza, insignificant almost when the destruction. Our notions of order: are orderly, this poem is disordered: jarring and separate. Analyzed natural forms and reduced forms to basic geometrical parts. 3d world composed onto a two dimensional picture plane. Sense of multiple perspectives, of composite and pluralistic world, of diversity and complexity (no homogenous or singular perspective) Angular plains, lacking colour (similar to the poem) Almost like you get three dimensions in one two dimensional composition. 13 ways of looking at a blackbird 1917: wallace stevens. Influence of imagism and cubism (modernist movements are present) Whimsical- search for new meanings, methods, forms. Mind and nature (environment) are inseparable and mutually constituted (the world thinks us as much as we think the world) Artists in general are blowing the world wide open, to interpretation. Poetry: a single glimpse, fragment in the world. Melancholy beauty: luminous lines that cut through to your emotion.