Abstract
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” - Sigmund Freud There have been a lot of writers throughout history who praised or criticized the world’s beauty and ways. They all had their ideas and advice for humanity. But America’s most celebrated twentieth-century poet Wallace Stevens did not just rain down his ideas in his writings but took them as his motto for life. And he called the sum of his ideas ‘Supreme Fiction’. This Supreme Fiction, according to Stevens, is a supreme level of poetry that cleanses the mind and soul of its readers and reduces the hardships they have to face in real life. In other words, Supreme Fiction is Stevens’ replacement for the idea of God. Deeply influenced by the Nietzschean idea of the ‘Death of God’, Stevens wants to create a replacement for God for people to find comfort in a world of disbelief and disorder in the twentieth century.
Highlights
There have been a lot of writers throughout history who praised or criticized the world’s beauty and ways
There have been a lot of writers throughout history examines his troubles with reality and the order of the world who praised or criticized the world’s beauty and ways
Influenced by the Nietzschean idea of the ‘Death of God’, Stevens wants to create a replacement for God for people to find comfort in a world of disbelief and
Summary
There have been a lot of writers throughout history who praised or criticized the world’s beauty and ways. His advice is that accepting reality is a better way of living a healthy life, and without that, there is no hope for humanity with its simple dependence on art or God. In a constantly changing world, people experience new kinds of mythological, political, economic, or poetical aspects in their life.
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