Wallace Stevens' Biography.
- Date: December 07, 2005
- Level: High School, 11th grade
- Grade: B
- Length: 7 pages (1760 words)
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wallace stevens, poets, lost belief, enjoy your life, religion, life expectancy, ...waste time, afterlife, adulthood, tragedies, new technologies, 1950s, poems, heaven
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Wallace Stevens wrote most of his poems from the turn of the century to the 1950s. During this time there were two major world wars. These wars took the lives of millions of people. With these tragedies a lot of artists and poets started to question the importance of religion in the modern era, and lost belief in it. Wallace Stevens was one of these poets, and felt that you should enjoy your life in the here and now and not waste time living for an afterlife.
There are many things that happened in Wallace Stevens's life to make him question religion, and decide just to enjoy his life in the here and now. When he ...
... that he may have a point, that maybe there is no god after all. Why would god let so many innocent people die on September 11th?
In conclusion it is easy to see through Wallace Stevens' poems that he has lost faith in religion and no longer believes in it. He shows this in "The Emperor of Ice Cream" by relating ice cream to life. His main point in that poem is, don't waste your life thinking about the after life; the here and now is more important because just like ice cream it could all be gone very soon. In "The snowman" he shows that once you are dead there is
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