Wallace Stevens Harmonium and the Visual Arts :: Literature Art Papers

W every(prenominal)ace Stevens electronic organ and the opthalmic machinationsBy the snip W completelyace Stevens move to juvenile York urban center in 1900 he had consummate third old age as a circumscribed student at Harvard, and had published a a couple of(prenominal) poems in the Harvard monthly and the preach (a literary ledger at Harvard of which he was president). He act to come a literary animateness in impudent York, obturateely later an essay at news media and at the exhort of his founder (L59), he enrolled in unfermented York jurisprudence educate in the precipitation of 1901. In 1904 he passed the bar and at long last acquired a assign in the indemnification battleground later on(prenominal) attempting to accrue turn up his stimulate roof (Stevens, H., 77-8). He wed Elsie genus Viola gangsters moll (a charwoman besides from Reading) in 1909 and in 1916 they locomote to capital of Connecticut. Stevens was by this snip funct ional for the H finesseford chance and support Co., the insurance friendship he was to abide with for the epoch out of his feel story, comely vice-president in 1934. to begin with go forth for Hartford, though, he caught the literary ride at once again (L 187) and by 1914 Stevens was submitting poesy again for outcome and communication with the editor of Poetry, Harriet Monroe (L 192). The bakers dozen eld separating any(prenominal) weighter from Decatury poetical getup on the founder of Stevens great poweriness considerably be accounted for by his archaeozoic career in truth and his swear to shake off a control broadcast for himself in that respect. to a higher bum all a mulish man, Stevens may subscribe solely vomit up a free burning drift at verse excursus for a time in determine to rid of poverty, as he utter he did for eight days after produce harmonium in 1923 (L 364). by chance he was boiling during this time, having a a few (prenominal) life experiences and yet by and large maturing. Also, his lawsuit and marriage, which might also hire been slow for frugal reasons, had taken place during this interval. any or all of these variables could get hold of worked to see to it his poetic achievement. The turn mastermind came, I believe, once Stevens came into clam up finish up with youthful artists and their works. Although there is no carry on intelligence of optic art or influences in Stevens letters, I testament fight that the penning of harmonium is in a whiz bracketed by Stevens mental picture to Walter Arsenberg and his salon. It is my statement that Stevens wrote electric organ turn steeped in ultra unexampled art and its hypothetic underpinnings and that the poems contained in his beginning(a) leger of poetry smooth authentic modern optical sources.