EN 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, Wallace Stevens, Bourgeoisie
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We make sense of language, it doesn"t make sense of it. Nature doesn"t make it miserable, it just makes the wind. Enigmatic lines and require you to think a little bit. If the human imagination is continuing acting on the natural world, then nothing is absolute but also everything is absolute. Positive poem - behind every snow is a spring. The true modern anxiety in a world where there isn"t imagination and that there"s a void there. This is the fun and the serious - the houses are haunted by white night-gowns. Talking about the mundaneness of the suburban society. Everyone tries to be unique, but they do it in the same way. So, he"s talking about ghosts, but also mothers wearing nightgowns. Ironic: desire to appear uniform, status quo, and to appear at the pajama party in a white nightgowns. White nightgowns = haunting fact like ghosts, but all non-unique. Play with the imagination = none are green, .
