Comments & Themes

Study Questions. You can reflect and write a paper on the following topics:

• Stevens and the elegy.

• Compare Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn” and Stevens’ “Anecdote of a Jar”

• The struggle between reality and imagination

• Compare Frost’s “Death of a Soldier” with Stevens’ “Death of a Soldier”

• In what way is Stevens as “impersonal” a poet as T. S. Eliot.