 | Lucy Beckett - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 236 pages
...become closer than ever before. As Stevens put it in his lecture of 1947, 'Three Academic Pieces' : 'What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...one's meditations on the text and the disclosures 178 of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.' The longest and most ambitious... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 436 pages
...the prose first section of Three Academic Pieces for a sentence that illuminates Stevens' intentions: "What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality" (NA, 76). But that leaves us with the word "reality" in Stevens, a word I wish Stevens had renounced,... | |
 | Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 140 pages
...nature is as much a mental as it is a physical entity, for, as he says in "Three Academic Pieces," "What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality" (NA 76). Metaphor has, then, its "aspect of the ideal" (NA 81-82), a conclusion which echoes what he... | |
 | Charles Doyle - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 528 pages
...poetics and metaphysics; one accepts Stevens' absolute dedication to poetry as a dedication to life. 'What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.' Stevens' explicit ontology, when it appears in remarks like this one, proceeds not from systematic... | |
 | Victor N. Davich - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1998 - 356 pages
...and what you felt. .To reinforce the images, write down or sketch your impressions of the journey. "What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...of the structure of reality." WALLACE STEVENS The Necessary Angel Visualization on wisdom Many contemporary schools of clinical psychology, including... | |
 | George Monteiro - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 216 pages
...real, though not in the sense of what is usually considered to constitute the real. Stevens wrote: "What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."1 The young Pessoa predicted that perforce modern poetry was to be the poetry of dream. Both... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 400 pages
...announcements, proclamations, messages — in short, as texts. "What our eyes behold," says Stevens, "may well be the text of life but one's meditations...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality" (NA, 70). Mercea Eliade has demonstrated "how representations of the divine have been attached to physiognomic... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 470 pages
...transcripts' are as much a part of reality as anything else is. 'What our eyes behold,' says Stevens, 'may well be the text of life but one's meditations...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality' (1951, 76). As he puts it in the title of a very late poem: 'Reality Is an Activity of the Most August... | |
 | Karen Fiala - Self-Help - 2006 - 450 pages
...reason for everything which happens in life. Remember, spirituality is a journey - not a destination! "The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit." Ralph Waldo Emerson We reap what we sow. Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the CBS Early Show and Jane Clayson... | |
 | John N. Serio - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 200 pages
...written in 1949, and two years earlier, in a Harvard lecture, "Three Academic Pieces," Stevens had noted, "What our eyes behold may well be the text of life...meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality" (689). "An Ordinary Evening" is not in fact about plain reality, what our eyes behold, but about the... | |
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. 