One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
The war in the poem between the warmth of Keatsian language and the chill of metaphysical analysis means that Stevens has not achieved a style that can embrace both the physical pine and the metaphysi...
Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
A poem needs as well as of content.