The Southern Review, June 22nd, 1997
Wallace Stevens is an outstanding poet of the seasons, as he imbues the yearly round with personal significance. The seasons become an important part of the poet's imaginative and affective life. For Stevens, winter represents a time of annihilation, regarded as essential for clarification and rectification, a time of cleaning the slate to prepare for spring's renewal. Spring is both a renewal and a time for the evolution of something new. Summer represents fulfillment and completion, experienced with an ambivalent sense of constraint along with contentment. Autumn signals a time of melancholy...
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