id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pp4aupyndzamzl2l3qyhem32xy Hannah Simpson "Where / Do I begin and end?": Circular Imagery in the Revolutionary Poetics of Stevens and Yeats 2018 17 .pdf application/pdf 7642 454 60 Both Yeats and Stevens turn to the circle as an ordering structure when Yeats's and Stevens's use of the circle image reveals a fascinating counterpointed relationship between their respective political beliefs. circular forms.2 The individual will is given up to the collective in the fascist state; the individual is absorbed into the universal circle structure in Stevens, like Yeats, invokes the circle as an ordering structure that acts in opposition to the confusion that he saw in the political Just as the circle in Yeats's poetry and cosmology subsumes and orders all existence into one united, precisely regulated Stevens likewise invokes the circle as an ordering structure in the face of (CPP 135): we can no longer structure the entire world and all civilization in an all-encompassing circular form, as Yeats tried to do, but we can Stevens's and Yeats's circular forms. ./cache/work_pp4aupyndzamzl2l3qyhem32xy.pdf ./txt/work_pp4aupyndzamzl2l3qyhem32xy.txt