id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qu4mhv6knfctfa3xqf774kpdwe Carra Glatt The Maker's Rage: Narrative in Stevens' Poetry 2013 13 .pdf application/pdf 5365 326 64 COMMONLY CONSIDERED among the most abstract of twentieth-century American poets, Wallace Stevens has rarely been read for his narrative qualities. narrative that informs both individual poems and the Stevens canon as a metaphoric and metonymic poles, Bates adds that Stevens' long poems establish covert narrative sequences by replacing the metonymic figuration at the Clavier" to the tropical voyage of canto XXIX of "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," Stevens also constructs a number of narratives that article, I will discuss several such narrative poems, considering the reasons behind Stevens' decision periodically to utilize conventional plots Bates suggest, the narrative mode in Stevens is more forceful as an implicit Both the lyric and the narrative poem, Ursula's Supreme Fiction" reads like a rewriting of "Cy Est Pourtraicte." Like Ursula, Nanzia, whom we find "On her trip around the world" (CPP 342), is Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens. ./cache/work_qu4mhv6knfctfa3xqf774kpdwe.pdf ./txt/work_qu4mhv6knfctfa3xqf774kpdwe.txt