JOURNAL 6-2403B

Eboni Dockery
2403b

Wallace Steven's The Idea of Order at Key West, like Milton's Paradise lost, is very long to be a poem. it seems like in the beginning of the first paragraph there is a short sentence. However, the rest of the paragraph is a single sentence. Its hard to understand exactly what Stevens is trying to say. I can only interpret a few parts of the poem. Stevens may be speaking of a women, and also nature. It also sounds like he is comparing a women to the sea, and nature.

In Book IV of Paradise lost Satan is on his way to Eden. As he approches, he see's how beautiful it is, and thinks of what could happen if he were to ask God for forgivness. However, Satan knows he'll always have Hell, and could never bow down to him. In Eden, there are many animals and tree. It, like in Steven's poem, is very nature like. Satan gets jealous as he see's the new world that was created after he and the other devils fell. Uriel belives that one of the fallen is in Eden and tells another angel. They then plan of seached for him and finding him by morning. By then Adam and Eve were in their Hut where Satan had disguised himself as a toad, or frog, and was wispering into Eve's ear while she slept. The Angels found him there and questioned why he was there. Satan began to fight the angel until he got a sign that he would lose, and left.