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13 de mai. de 2011 · As we beheld her striding there alone, Knew that there was never a world for her. Except the one she sang and, singing, made. Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know, Why, when the singing ended and we turned. Toward the town, tell why the glassy lights, The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there,
Written in 1934, “The Idea of Order at Key West” remains one of the most difficult poems by one of America’s most difficult poets. Yet, it stands as one of Stevens’ most anthologized poems, and according to most critics of his work, it is one of his best. Stevens must have liked it as well, as he made it the title poem in his 1936 ...
Wallace Stevens Reads: The Idea of Order at Key West, Looking Across the Fields and Watching Birds Fly, and Other Poems by Wallace Stevens - ISBN 10: 1559948329 - ISBN 13: 9781559948326 - Caedmon Audio Cassette
In this poem, an unidentified speaker listens to a woman singing at the seaside in Key West, and follows a train of thought about the nature of creativity and inspiration, as they are manifested in the woman's song. In stanza one, after introducing the unidentified "she," the speaker makes a contrast between her song and the "cry" made by the sea.
You can hear Stevens read “The Idea of Order at Key West” and other poems on the cassette Wallace Stevens Reads, distributed by Harper Audio. Cite this page as follows: "The Idea of Order at ...
He implores Ramon, "tell me, if you know," why the night suddenly appears magnificently ordered. In the chain of artists and audiences, Ramon Fernandez also serves as an audience to the woman's song, and is also invited by the speaker to fill the unique role of commentator. This has led to suppositions that Fernandez represents the role of the ...
Order vs. Chaos. The opposition of order and chaos underlies the tension between human artist and natural world. This is the "maker's rage to order words of the sea": the human urge to organize and assign meaning to nature. The woman's song appears to have ultimate power to inspire order: after the singing ends, the narrator turns and exclaims ...
