Theme Sunday Morning
To briefly summarize “Sunday Morning” the poem by Wallace Stevens is about a woman who is describing her thoughts and feelings as she sits in a chair and enjoys her coffee. The persona of this poem is against attending church every Sunday and she contemplates about heaven being better than what humans have on Earth. After searching for spiritual fulfillment, the woman figures death is permanent and death is what makes life so beautiful. Here on Earth true paradise will exist until the end of time. A conversation between the woman and her soul throughout this leads one to believe the theme of “Sunday Morning” is the woman’s belief and disbelief to spiritually fulfill herself.
I noticed during the first stanza that this woman begins taking pleasure in "complacencies of the peignoir, and late / Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair" on this Sunday away from church. This day could possibly be Easter stating in line 5 “holy hush of ancient sacrifice.” Eventually, her......
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