Abstract
Based on the analysis of the poem “The Idea of Order at Key West”, by Wallace Stevens, this article intends to discuss the concept of order as formulated in the author’s poetic work. Unlike the literary criticism carried out by the “new critics”, which idealized preserving intact the boundaries between the extrinsic and intrinsic spaces that compose the artistic artifacts, the idea of order in Stevens seeks to bring into the poem all its exteriority, creatively reconfiguring the reality.
Keywords:
Stevens; order; self-determination.