Wallace Stevens himself said that 'Sunday Morning' is about paganism.' Can we believe seriously in an afterlife? ‘Sunday Morning’ is one of Wallace Stevens’s most celebrated poems. She dreams a little, and she feels the dark Encroachment of that old catastrophe, As a calm darkens among water-lights.

It first appeared in 1915 in the magazine Poetry, although the fuller version was only published in Stevens’s landmark collection Harmonium in 1923. Wallace Stevens and A Summary of Sunday Morning Sunday Morning is an enigmatic poem that is part metaphysical, part romantic, and explores the idea 'of the origin and end of eras of human belief' by first introducing the reader to a woman who on a Sunday morning relaxes in her dressing gown (peignoir) instead of presumably going to church. Unlike the majority of Stevens’ poems, this piece is fairly well organized and written in blank verse.
This means that the lines do not have a rhyme scheme but maintain the pattern of iambic pentameter.

Jove in the clouds had his inhuman birth'. There is implied conflict with Christianity also, in the mind of the female central character: 'The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits lingering/ It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay'. ‘Sunday Morning’ by Wallace Stevens is an eight stanza poem that is separated into sets of fifteen lines. Stevens’s poem begins with a description of a woman’s casual, secular “Sunday morning” routine. If we can’t, what comfort can we take in the only life we get?
The first verbs—“mingles” and “dissipate”—occur in the fourth line.

There is implied conflict with Christianity also, in the mind of the female central character: 'The tomb in Palestine/ Is not the porch of spirits lingering/ It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay'. Wallace Stevens ’s “ Sunday Morning ” (1915) is a lofty poetic meditation—almost a philosophical discourse—rooted in a few basic questions: what happens to us when we die?

Sunday Morning Wallace Stevens - 1879-1955 I Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

What is the effect gained by delaying verbs, and choosing these verbs, to the opening stanza? Jove in the clouds had his inhuman birth'. Wallace Stevens himself said that 'Sunday Morning' is about paganism.'