Wallace Stevens: Two anecdotes
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Stevens, Harmonium, anecdotes, order, disorderAbstract
This essay aims to discuss two anecdotes by Wallace Stevens, “Earthy Anecdote” (1918), and “Anecdote of the Jar” (1919), which are part of the poet’s first book, Harmonium, published in 1923. The purpose of analyzing these poems is to present three interrelated interpretative hypotheses regarding the author’s poetic work: for Stevens, 1) the politics of poetry is related to a clash between the ideas of order and disorder, capable of bending lines and borders, contours and spaces ; 2) the result of what we could call a politics of interference cannot be operationalized, resisting the process of interpretation or attribution of meanings; 3) precisely because it does not allow itself to be captured, the creative gesture requests the permanent reframing of the same dilemmas based on variations in the way of conceiving or facing them. At a time when the politics of literature is fundamentally thought of in an operational way, the play of lines in Stevens gains an unexpected relevance.
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