Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

How high that highest candle lights the dark. Stevens suggests that we live in the tension between the shapes we take as the world acts upon us and the ideas of order that our imagination imposes upon the world. Weinman who made a bust of Elsie.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. Wallace Stevens (October 2 1879 – August 2 1955) was an American Modernist poet. ".