"Walking to Sleep" and Richard Wilbur's quest for a rational imagination.

From: Twentieth Century Literature | Date: December 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Richard Wilbur's "Walking to Sleep" shows his rejection and invocation of Poe, Wordsworth, Frost, Eliot and Stevens. Poe's aesthetics contrasts with Wilbur's reality. Wilbur designs the imagination to have lost faith in its power to organize the world, Frost directs the guide in his poem, "Directive," through a stable landscape. Eliot's "The Waste Land" exhibits clear imagery which becomes chaotic in Wilbur's poem. Stevens views imagination as a force against reality, Wilbur sees it as a rational modification of chaos into experience. Wordsworth relates to God's power, Wilbur to the speaker's ...

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