Wallace+Stevens

=**Wallace Stevens** Allie,Evan,and Hunter =

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania October 2, 1897. He attended Harvard from 1897- 1900. He dropped out and began to attend New York Law. He graduated from New york law. In the year of 1909 he married his wife, Elsie Kachel. 15 years later they had a child named Holly. He died on August 2, 1995 at age 76, in Hartford, Connecticut. Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive,a layer, and a great poet. **Writting Style**
 * Unique
 * Difficult and abstract
 * playful, colorful, and philosophical
 * theme was mind and phycial reality

One of Wallace stevens biggest achievements was winning the Pulitzers Prize in 1955. The Pultizer prize won in 1955, by Wallace Stevens. **Famous poems**
 * //" Sunday Morning" 1915//
 * //"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" 1922//
 * //" The Idea of Order at Key West" 1933//
 * //" Notes toward a Supreme Fiction" 1942//
 * //" Esthetique du mal" 1944//

Wallace Stevens was a poet, but he also was a lawyer and an insurance excutive. One unique thing about him is that he collected poems. Wallace Stevens also wrote two plays:
 * //Three Travellers Watch the Sunrise (1916)//
 * //Carlos Among the Candles (1917)//

"The Snow Man"
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees covered in snow;

And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice , The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

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