Poems by Wallace Stevens & Robert Frost

In "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon," Stevens describes what appears to be an imaginary experience, but shows that it was very vivid to him by describing it in terms of real-life images. The exotic "Palaz of Hoon" probably does not exist in the real world. When Stevens says "he descended... the day... through the loneliest air," he is again describing a fantasy (54). His use of the terms "purple" and "western" convey a sense that his experience actually had a visual reality, however, and "loneliest" suggests that he was so engaged in his experience that it actually aroused this emotion in him (54). Alternatively, since he seems to be arguing with the person addressed as "you" when he says, "Not less because in purple I descended... what you called the loneliest air, not less was I myself," perhaps his absorption in his personal vision gave him a "lonely air" because he appeared to be detached from his surroundings (54).

In the last two stanzas of the poem, he makes it explicit that his exp

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y shades and shapen snow" (367). "Being part," getting involved in the cry of the leaves, would take exertion by the poet and the sound of the leaves is not a cry of divine attention, Nor the smoke drift of puffed-out heroes, nor human cry. It is the cry of leaves that do not transcend themselves. (367). In the end, his ear decides -- in the "absence of fantasia" or willingness to use his imagination -- that the sound has no "meaning more" than lies "in the thing itself" (367). Since the cry has no meaning, it "concerns no one at all" (367). Robert Frost, in "An Old Man's Winter Night," shows how an elderly man's uneasiness about his circumstances is reflected in his perceptions of his surroundings as being either ominous or also filled with fear. The real fear that underlies his imaginings is made explicit at the end of the poem: "One aged man -- one man -- can't keep a house, a farm, a countryside" (52). One first learns at the beginning of the poem, however, that "all out-of-doors looked darkly in at him" (52). His fright is embodied in inanimate objects: He stood with barrels round him -- at a loss. And having scared the cellar under him In clomping here, he scared it once again In
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Approximate Word count = 1762
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)