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Sunday Morning

Wallace Stevens

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1923
Pages
Pages 4

A woman stays home on Sunday morning with coffee and oranges instead of going to church, and the poem argues for her that heaven would be dull, that death is what makes beauty matter, and that this earth is all the paradise there is.

Death is the mother of beauty
Sunday Morning, Wallace Stevens

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