Sunday, February 10, 2008

Study of Two Pears -- Wallace Stevens

This poem is sectioned like "Blackbird," once again showing the Cubist in Stevens. He mentions that the pears, which are to be drawn or painted it seems, are just pears. They do not represent anything except pears. He then goes on to talk about the colors of the pear, just describing what he sees. As I was reading it, aware of the Cubist influence, I could almost picture a Cubism painting of pears. I could see the colors and the shape, but skewed a bit.

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