Comments on: Wallace Stevens http://dev313.wordpress.com Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:35:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dev313 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-24 dev313 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:17:17 +0000 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-24 Also, is Stevens refering to chaos (an element “too big, ” “not planned, ” and “without any form or any sense of form”)? Another meaning for "breathing like the wind" could be when our own thoughs become meaningless—our thoughts become “a breathing like the wind, /A moving part of a motion" something so regular it loses its meaning. Also, is Stevens refering to chaos (an element “too big, ” “not planned, ” and “without any form or any sense of form”)?
Another meaning for “breathing like the wind” could be when our own thoughs become meaningless—our thoughts become “a breathing like the wind, /A moving part of a motion” something so regular it loses its meaning.

]]> By: dev313 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-23 dev313 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:13:08 +0000 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-23 This poem seems to be written from a transcendentalist standpoint. I can nearly see Emerson's all seeing translucent eyeball looking over this poem. There were many nature references. The idea of thinking away the grass and taking it as it is was intriguing. What happens when we stop trying to pin meaning dwon on things and start "being a part of it"? My favorite passage was And what we think, a breathing like the wind, A moving part of a motion, a discovery Part of a discovery, a change part of a change, because I like the idea of thinking as breathing, something so regular and necessary for survial. I also like "The spirit comes from the body of the soul. This poem seems to be written from a transcendentalist standpoint. I can nearly see Emerson’s all seeing translucent eyeball looking over this poem. There were many nature references. The idea of thinking away the grass and taking it as it is was intriguing. What happens when we stop trying to pin meaning dwon on things and start “being a part of it”?

My favorite passage was

And what we think, a breathing like the wind,
A moving part of a motion, a discovery
Part of a discovery, a change part of a change,

because I like the idea of thinking as breathing, something so regular and necessary for survial. I also like “The spirit comes from the body of the soul.

]]> By: hwood295 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-22 hwood295 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:27:00 +0000 http://dev313.wordpress.com/wallace-stevens/#comment-22 i loved this poem. it caught my eye, especially the line "And what we think, a breathing like the wind, a moving part of a motion, a discovery part of a discovery, a change part of a change, a sharing of color and being part of it." It reminded me of the idea that in oder to bring change, you must be the change (like that ghandi quote that seems to be following us everywhere--hahaha) and i was able to relate to that a lot. i loved this poem. it caught my eye, especially the line “And what we think, a breathing like the wind, a moving part of a motion, a discovery part of a discovery, a change part of a change, a sharing of color and being part of it.” It reminded me of the idea that in oder to bring change, you must be the change (like that ghandi quote that seems to be following us everywhere–hahaha) and i was able to relate to that a lot.

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