wallace stephans SUNDAY MORNING

Sunday Morning
Wallace Stevens’s poem, “Sunday Morning”, is about an anonymous woman who decides to skip church one Sunday morning; instead she sits in her house and questions her faith along with many other things. The poem takes place on Sunday morning, the day of worship, Christ’s day, but also “sun” day, a sunny day, a day to worship the sun. That morning she got to sleep in late, sit around with her bird the cockatoo which could represent self-enjoyment or self-satisfaction. Lounging around in her peignoir nightgown and eating oranges and drinking her coffee. The oranges could represent her pleasures of sense and touch. She is in a yearning state or mind, satisfied with the world. The sunshine is very significant to the poem. It is the source of all warmth and energy.
The woman only thought about her faith and Jesus. She could not fathom why she did not attend church and kept questioning her beliefs about death, Heaven, and God. One question that...