Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies, January 1st, 2003
ABSTRACT
Both Poe and Stevens perceived imagination as the ultimate faculty of the human mind. The paper attempts a detailed comparison of Poe's "The Raven" and Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" as an a example of two different approaches to the relation between imagination and perception. In "The Raven", the romantic poet seeks a total disjunction between the real and the imagined world whereas the modernist poem presents a close interrelation between those two realms. According to Poe, the ultimate meaning should be sought beyond the physical world, out of time and space,...
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