Homeward Journey through Poetry: Wallace Stevens’s The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain

• Authors: Boróka Prohászka-Rád
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Analyzing Stevens’s 1952 The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain I trace the laborious journey the persona of the poem undertakes - an external as well as an internal adventure - transforming thus the world into a possible home. I show how the poem - through its self-reflexive nature and complex system of interwoven external and internal images and circular movements - may offer the persona a sense of self and home in space and time among the fragments of the broken universe.

Keywords

EN

Stevens; poetry; metatext; transcendental

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-63

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Boróka Prohászka-Rád

• Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) Department of Humanities

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ausp-2015-0035