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"Colloquy with a Polish Aunt" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, ''Harmonium.'' It was first published in 1919.〔(See Librivox )〕 Revue des deux mondes (Journal of the Two Worlds) is a French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829. It was created in order to establish a cultural, economic and political bridge between France and the United States.() The quotation says, "She knew all the legends of Paradise and all the stories about Poland." The phrase "from Voragine" seems to be a reference to Verazze.〔Jacobus de Voragine#cite note-0〕 Leading interpreters of ''Harmonium'' give ''Colloquy'' a wide berth. Buttel omits it from his index catalog of the collection's poems. Bates steers clear of it similarly. The poem is a contribution to one of Stevens's major themes,〔Vendler writes, "Some readers have seen his subject as an epistemological one, and have written about his views on the imagination and its uneasy rapport with reality. Others have seen his subject as a moral one, a justification of an aesthetic hedonism. Still others have seen his subject as a native humanist one, the quest of the American Adam for a Paradise in the wilderness." (3)〕 the relationship between imagination and reality. The poet's imaginative dream transforms the common drudge into women swathed in indigo, etc. == Notes == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colloquy with a Polish Aunt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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