Wallace Stevens

1. Wallace Stevens Paris Baker

2. Birth &Death • Date of Birth OCT 2,1879 • DIED August 2,1955

3. BACKGROUND • He believes in that the goal of poetry was to capture the interaction between fantasy and reality. He spent his career writing poems that delve into the imagination and the ways in which it shapes our perception of the physical world. He was born and raised Reading PA after completing his education at Harvard University he took a job at an insurance company in Hartford Connecticut and eventually becomes the company's vice president.

4. Point OF View • The author is the one who is speaking in the story. He is giving the point of view of what what the story is about. • Most of his poems are his point of view

5. Plot • The plot of the story is that is the poems relate to life

6. Poem • Among the more irritating minor ideas Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home To Concord, at the edge of things, was this: To think away the grass, the trees, the clouds, Not to transform them into other things, Is only what the sun does every day,

7. Quotes • A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a women • In the world of words the imagination is one the forces of nature • Money is a kind of poetry • The point of vision and desire are the same • We say God and the imagination are one … how high that highest candle lights the dark

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9. Work cited • Wiki.wikipediathefreeencyclotediapedia.wed172010