Of Modern Poetry -- Wallace Stevens

This is an interesting concept: a poem about poetry. I think Stevens was right on in his description of poetry. He claims that poetry now has to find what will suffice, and that once it was not that way. I think it means that "poetry of the mind" now has to always find new ground, a new frontier. It makes me think of music in today's society. How every artist is hoping to create a "new sound," to find the next best thing. Artists crave to be novel, to be one of a kind, and with this poem, I believe Stevens has done just that.