Wallace Stevens wrote most of his poems from the turn of the century to the 1950s. During this time there were two major world wars. These wars took the lives of millions of people. With these tragedies a lot of artists and poets started to question the importance of religion in the modern era, and lost belief in it. Wallace Stevens was one of these poets, and felt that you should enjoy your life in …
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…it. In "Sunday Morning" he writes about a woman who decides not to go to church on Sunday and doesn't have the slightest regret about doing it. All these poems relate a lot to the world of 2005. A lot of people today have the same beliefs and can relate to what Wallace Stevens is saying in his poems, about how there is no religion and we should enjoy our ice-cream (life) while we have it.