Wallace Stevens lived from 1879-1955 and wrote from 1914-1955. Wallace wrote mostly poems and some essays. He is apart of the modernist genre. I believe his purpose for writing was to get his thoughts out of his head and to express what he was feeling in an artistic way. I really enjoyed reading through some of Stevens pieces and the rhyming scheme he uses in all the poems I read made it easy to read but the content made you think. I am amazed at the diction he uses in his poems, the words he chooses are complex but powerful. My favorite poem by Stevens is "A Postcard from the Volcano" and my favorite Wallace Stevens quote is "It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."
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