A dialectical reading of Wallace Stevens' "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.1.55-61Resumo
This description of dialectics is a fitting epigraph for a dialectical reading of any poem by Wallace Stevens. In "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," a later poem, the poet reveals his quest for the "ultimate poem," one that"..."Must be Abstract," "Must Change.," and "Must Give Pleasure," titles of its three parts respectively.
