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One of the most famous lines from Stevens, and one of the most enigmatic, appears in "Sunday Morning": "Death is the mother of beauty" Describe the thinking process by which the speaker in this poem transforms Sunday morning from a day of Christian religious observance for the dead into a very different kind of celebration.

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Wallace Steven's Sunday Morning is briefly explicated in terms of meaning.

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For me, Steven's thinking process seems to embody direct contrasts between the women's sacred and secular images, Christian and pagan longings, and the holy and ordinary moments of everyday life. Stevens uses the women's questioning and soul searching by citing how daily, mundane life images such as "...late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair/And the green freedom of a cockatoo" seem to replace Biblical or religious practices with allusions such as "silent Palestine, Dominion of the blood and ...

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