Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory by B J Leggett

Author:B J Leggett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1987-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The poet wishes to impart something like this to the soldier in the epilogue to Notes. He argues that there is another war, one “between the mind and the sky” in which the poet engages: “It is a war that never ends” (CP, 407). The soldier may return from his war to a celebration of “six meats and twelve wines,” or he may die. In either case, he “is poor without the poet’s lines” (CP, 407), for the poet provides the words by which life and death are celebrated. Stevens implies that the poet contributes with his words the flavor of life, like the condiments added to food:

How simply the Active hero becomes the real;

How gladly with proper words the soldier dies,

If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech. [CP, 408]

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