Lyric Life

Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"


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Here's an early poem by Wallace Stevens, part of his HARMONIUM collection, "Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock." It's an imagistic poem about both the failure of the imagination and its success--and about why poetry matters (particularly after that last episode about Marianne Moore's "Poetry"). Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I dance with and around this short but complex poem by one of the United States' best poets.
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Lyric LifeBy Mark Scarbrough