Poem

Poem A Detailed Look at the Second and Third Stanzas in Wallace Stevens’ Of Mere Being The poem, “Of Mere Being,” by Wallace Stevens, describes the image of a golden bird singing in a palm tree. The first stanza describes a palm tree, standing “at the end of the mind.” Continuing the poem through solar imagery, a singing bird is pictured in the tree. Stevens then proposes to the reader that we do not need to understand the bird’s song, or why it gives us emotional responses. The reader is lead to except the fact that the bird just exists in the palm tree, in space. In the first line of the second stanza, the bird is described as “gold feathered.” The significance of a golden bird could symbolize one’s soul, or stevens, bird, song, bird’s, reader, stanza, second, reality, understand, tree, third, singing, plato, palm, meaning, human, golden, absolute, work, without, steven’s, poet, poem, noble, mere, line, himself, gold, first, exists, describes, being, in, words, wallace