Wallace Stevens The Dramatist : Reality and Imagination | ||||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 17, Issue 64, January 2006, Page 29-50 PDF (381.54 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2006.139371 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Afaf Effat Jamil Khogeer* | ||||
| کلية العلوم الاجتماعية، جامعة أم القرى، مکة المکرمة | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Although some critics have labelled him as ‘the unprofessional poet,’ Wallace Stevens was undoubtedly one of the great poets of America.His poetry is philosophical, yet he deals with his ideas in a concrete manner. One of the dominant subjects in his poetry is the confrontation between reality and imagination where the latter, as Stevens says, “enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.”Wallace Stevens also wrote three experimental one-act plays in 1915-1917, hut his published plays were coldly received by most of his critics. In his search for identity, he set out to tacklc drama perhaps because the medium of the drama lends itself conveniently to an impersonality he was to look for throughout his poctic career. This paper is an attempt to analyse Three Travellers Watch a Sunrise - an experiment in the use of the dramatic medium in which Stevens tried - as early as 1916 to come to grips with the central question of the relationship between imagination and reality. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Reality; Imagination; The Dramatis | ||||
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