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The Auroras of Autumn
by Wallace Stevens
Stevens' Harmonium is one of the most beautiful and profound poetry collections of the 20th century. While neither as beautiful, nor as profound as Harmonium, The Auroras of Autumn has some outstanding stuff in it.
One can describe Stevens as the poet of epistemology and ontology, the poet philosopher surveying the world aphoristically, trying to find reality in the world around him in the absence of the order of God. Stevens has better poetry volumes than this, but the intense beauty in some of these lines, especially in the title poem, make the read worth it:
One can describe Stevens as the poet of epistemology and ontology, the poet philosopher surveying the world aphoristically, trying to find reality in the world around him in the absence of the order of God. Stevens has better poetry volumes than this, but the intense beauty in some of these lines, especially in the title poem, make the read worth it:
This is nothing until in a single man contained,
Nothing until this named thing nameless is
And is destroyed. He opens the door of his house
On flames. The scholar of one candle sees
An Arctic effulgence flaring on the frame
Of everything he is. And he feels afraid.