The House was Quite and the World was Calm...

The poem that I have been reading, understanding, and memorizing for this course is Wallace Steven's poem, "The House was Quiet and the World was Calm". Like any poem, it has what's on the surface and what we as students analyze it as. I find this poem to be extremely interesting.

I find myself in this poem. There is a person reading a book on a hot summer night and has trapped, or 'been carried away with' this book they are reading. All of a sudden this individual finds that they are so deep into the reading that they are in reality. They have become the book. The interesting part is so true. When we read, and we do find ourselves acting like the certain character, as tend to want other things and read ahead. Stevens gets this point across when he says the reader 'leaned' .....he wanted whas was going on to be true....but it reality it was not.

This is a poem about how captivated we get in the world of words.

Just a quick note!