Wallace Stevens, born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, was a great American poet. Basing his philosophy on the teachings of Lucretius, Stevens strove to reveal reality through the imagination of poetry. He used poetry in order to remove the romantic from the imagination in order to show the reality beneath.
Stevens strove to use poetry in order to show his readers How to Live and What to Do. His poetry illustrated to his readers that reality is beautiful, more beautiful than the reality we may create for ourselves. He explored the concept of the imagination as a tool to express reality rather than hide it.
As a poet, Stevens works as a destructive character. He destroys our typical views of the world and replaces them with reality. He shows his readers that reality, although harsh, is all the more beautiful because it is what is real. Ultimately, he wishes his readers to see the world as it truly is and to stop creating a false reality. Because only then can a person experience what is truly sublime.
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