A Critical Appreciation of Wallace Steven’s

The beaker of the cry, a man, is walking fine-tune a beach with a friend and hears a woman singing. He muses on how the sounds of the ocean cable and inspire her constituent. He imagines that she is as beautiful as both her vociferation and the ocean. Though he doesnt very see the womans face, the speaker knows that she is lovely. As he walks behind her, the speaker notices how her bright, ethereal illustration compares to the dark appear sea. To him it is almost as if the ocean was a spirit whose voice they could not hear, but knew was there. For most of the poem Stevens paints a picture of n ocean that is both enchanting and mysterious at the same time.In turn, the womans variant is make mystical and alluring because of the setting. Though we, the readers, dont see the woman or hear her song, we experience the transubstantiation that the sea, the city, and the speaker go through. In the fourth stanza the t peerless of the poem turns darker and the speaker begins to notic e things other than the woman, her song, and the ocean. He claims that it was her voice that made the sky clearer and the ocean belonged to her and her song alone. He and his companion realize hat the tho world for her was the one she sang and, singing, made. In the seventh stanza we learn the name of the speakers companion Ramona Fernando. He (the speaker) asks Ramona why things looked different after the mystery woman finished her song her song made the city lights brighter and more enchanting than they were before. At this point we realize that the speaker has had an epiphany. Some critics say that the speakers epiphany was Stevens means of showing the importance of art. Without it, and in this case without song, we would never be able to see the world Leary. The womans song undefendable up the speakers eyes to the light of the world around him, and in turn the poem itself opened up our eyes.The poem focuses on the perception of imagination and reality. In this poem, reality p ertains to the totality of all things possessing actuality, beingness or essence imagination, on the other hand, captures and interprets reality so an individual is able to create their bear meaning of the given world, and escape the facts of existence through their own sense of creativity and ingenuity. At the origination of the poem the speaker seeks an answer to whether the song exists through an external reality or inwardly his readiness to formulate this into something personal. by means ofout his walk the speaker never truly determines whether the song is an external reality or within his own imagination, Stevens proposes that the song is neither, since one is not able to exist without the other. Near the end of the poem, the speaker muses upon the womans song and determines that she is both of song and sea, thus his enjoyment is derived out of a fusion of his imagination interpreting the voice along with an external awareness of his surrounding reality.Above all, Stevens captures and portrays this theme through his understanding of the human condition which perceives the stale as human. Throughout The Idea of Order at Key West the narrator seemingly attempts to roll in the hay whether the song he hears is the seas waves singing to the womans voice, or if the singers tune is his imaginations perception of the ocean. To answer this question, Stevens suggest that the narrator moldiness investigate and recognize the difference amidst imagination and reality.Since the sea is an external nature which causes a mindless constant cry and cannot be formed to mind or voice, the orator must distinguish the oceans experience and counterpart through the singer. similarly, her ability to utter the sound of the waves word by word helps to transform the stale song of the sea into the entirely human song of the woman. Moreover, as the singer measures and interprets her song the ocean besides analyzes and follows the laws of nature.As the speaker begins to pe rceive that the song is more than the sea merely singing through the womans voice, he begins to find a sense of ineffability which goes beyond the mere wrangle of the tune and experience of his walk. Thus in stanza went eightsome he states But it was more than that, more even than her voice, and ours The narrator begins to accept the mystery behind the songs blissfulness and acquires the tune as the driving spirit of all the external realities in his presence.This realization of the songs ineffability makes the sky acutest at its vanishing (35) and measured to the hour at its solitude. For Stevens, these acts of interpretation are essentially human acts which help slew come in touch with themselves and the world around them in order to experience the Joys of being one with both themselves ND nature. Within the final lines of the poem, Stevens links the title by connecting with and relating to our desire for ordered experiences and sympathizes among us since we always try to make the inhuman human.Thus at the ending, the womans song guides the narrator and helps to clear the vision between the order which humans seek of the natural world O Blessed rage for order. Likewise this cognizance opens fragrant portals. The fragrant portals are important because they open a new door to an learn new self-awareness. Moreover, as narrator begins to apprehend the usage of the womans song, he realizes that the song allowed him to see order in the world.Additionally, the song produces from within him a desire to create his own song, in order to interact and rival with the imagination of others Just kindred woman has done to his. Stevens understanding of the human condition serves a cracking purpose in The Idea of Order at Key West. Stevens portrays the narrators experiences through the reflection of his thoughts. When the voice comes along he begins to change his way of thinking because she helps him understand and become conscious of the illusion of his imagination.T hrough the language of The Idea of Order at Key West Wallace Stevens expresses his perception of the world. His thoughts and language become his instruments that craft the poem. Through the readers of the poem, Stevens captures and engages them It is the spectator and not life, which art really mirrors (Oscar Willed) As the spectator mirrors this form of art and interprets meaning into the kit and boodle allurement, they becoming cultivated and enlightened. As a poet, Wallace Stevens believed that poetry should be similar to a work of art. And like a work of art, Stevens poetry helps his readers discover order in a chaotic world.