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The Odyssey and The World as Meditation
The World as Meditation is a poem written by Wallace Stevens. Stevens was born in Reading Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879 and died on August 2, 1955 at the age of seventy-six in Hartford Connecticut
(www. English.uiuc.edu). Stevens developed an interested in verse-writing at Harvard, soon after he was contributing to poetry and his first book was published in 1923(www. English.uiuc.edu). He felt that the reviews of his book were less than he wanted them to be so he stopped writing until the 1930’s (www. English.uiuc.edu). It is said that Wallace reached the peak of his career in his later years and especially with the release of “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens” which includes The World as Meditation.
The poem shows great influence from the mythological work The Odyssey. It also has an introduction from a musical piece by Georges Enesco: “J'ai passé trop de temps à travailler mon violon, à voyager. “Mais l'exercise essentiel du compositeur -la méditation- rien ne l'a jamais suspendu en moi... Je Vis UN rêve permanent, qui ne s’arrête Ni nuit Ni jour “ (Stevens, 520) which translates to mean I spent too much time to be worked by my violin, to travel. But the essential exercise of the composer -the
meditation - nothing did not ever suspend it in me... I live a permanent dream that does not stop neither at night nor day. To start with a musical introduction goes to show that not only was Stevens influenced by music as well as mythology but that his poem also was to flow like music “MR. STEVENS has always been a poet for whom the precise tone of an idea or a feeling was all-important, a poet for whom words had a life of their own. He is not a dramatic poet and not in the usual sense, a lyric poet pouring out his feeling in song (Walton BR185)”. It is obvious once the poem starts that it has some type of influence from the Odyssey, the third word is Ulysses the famous name of...
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