In Wallace Stevens’ phenomenological poetry, Nature and the human respons to Nature are inseparable components of a single experience of a “world.” is human feeling for the things of the world that makes them “things,” bi that feeling has its basis in what is already there. This fundamental phenom enological idea is expressed with particular vividness in one of Stevens’ la poems, entitled ‘An Old Man Asleep’:
The two worlds are asleep, are sleeping now. A dumb sense possesses them in a kind of solemnity. The self and the earth — your thoughts, your feelings, Your beliefs and disbeliefs, your whole peculiar plot; The redness of your reddish chestnut trees, The river motion, the drowsy motion of the river R.1