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Fiction Or Being:Philosophical Interpret Towards Poetic Ideas Of Wallace Stevens

Posted on:2016-12-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X S ShiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330512478179Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Wallace Stevens was a philosophical poet whose poetry and poetic theory has plenty of philosophical insights.Understanding the poetry and poetry theory of Stevens is the important ways to understand his philosophical thoughts,and also is the key to understand how Stevens put the cornerstone of philosophy into the palace of poetry.As the change of Being throughout the development of western philosophy,the verbs of Being very frequently appear in Stevens' poems.He proposes fiction as a poetry concept,in response to philosophy concept of Being.This reveals people find truth with the help of reason in philosophy,while in poetry,people use imagination to reach the truth.One of the best ways to imagination is fiction.The poet gives imagination to real life,imagination and reality coexist in fiction and reach an accommodation.They are likely to arrive to supreme fiction in the reconciliation.At present,God is dead,belief is lost,supreme fiction is the replacement of the ideas of God,thus poetry is the replacement of belief and help people live their lives.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wallace Stevens, Philosophical Ideas, Supreme Fiction
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