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Wallace Stevens chanted the earthly things in his poems. To him the ephemeral beings are not only the component parts of the earth but those of Eternity, like a William Blake's poem: 'Eternity is in love with the productions of Time.'(from "Marriage of Heaven and Hell"). As it is manifested, to exist on the earth means to belong to the solar system. The solar system is in the universe, likewise, the universe is in the eternity or nothingness, because everything that exists inevitably will be gone some day. Therefore Wallace Stevens had deep affection for the transient beings owing to their finiteness. From the point of his world view, Wallace Stevens said that 'Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,/ Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams/ And our desires.' So he could perceive the paradisiacal phenomena in our daily life by dint of his positive insight on the earthly things. Northrop Frye, therefore, called him 'the realistic oriole' as an angel. From that point, Wallace Stevens took the role of an angel of the earth. In fine, Wallace Stevens perceived the eternity in 'now and here'. In a sense he might have been solitary in a mess of many ideologies and religions, for he wanted to see things as they are. But he led his life stately with believing in himself and his poetic world. The great artist has also the great critic within himself.