...God. When 20th-century novelists and poets revisit Milton's paradise, they do so with conscious irony: Is there no change of death in paradise ? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Why set the pear upon those river-banks Or spice the shores with odors of the plum? Alas, that they...

...pears On disregarded plate. The maidens taste And stray impassioned in the littering leaves. 15 VI Is there no change of death in paradise ? Does ripe...earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas 5 They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Why set the pear...

...sixth stanza of "Sunday Morning" Stevens discards a vision of eternal ripeness for the same reason. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? In "Phases" these images of eternal peace ("all things, as before") pale beside the beauty of wartime...

...School Press. Joskow, Paul L. 1985. Vertical integration and long-term contracts: The case of coal41. "Is there no change of death in Paradise? / Does ripe fruit never fall?" (Stevens 1954, 69). burning electric generating plants. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization...

...be unable to provide the cycles of desire and consummation that produce pleasure in a world of flux. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Again, it is instructive to place this sarcastic view of immortality alongside a passage from Nietzsche...

...Paradise that we shall know?" recalls the Miltonic Satan whose metaphors are always derivative. Querying Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...Unchanging yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers of our own that seek for seas They never find. Stevens' speaker inverts the ordinary typological priority,...

...plums and pears On disregarded plate. The maidens taste And stray impassioned in the littering leaves. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Why set the pear upon those river-banks Or spice the shores with odors of the plum? Alas, that they...

...from itself. As Wallace Stevens, the central theologian of the machine age, asks in "Sunday Morning": Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? I know the name, by the way, of what it is beneath and articulating itself through SF: I'll tell you...

...Merkmal des unveränderlichen Seins in der Wesensmetaphysik und der christlichen Himmelsvorstellung ist („Is there no change of death in paradise? / Does ripe fruit never fall?" [76-77] fragt das Subjekt von „Sunday Morning"), die aber vom Wandel des Frühlings und Sommers aufgebrochen...

...remembering The bough of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul. VI Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe...receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Why set the pear upon those river-banks Or spice the shores with odors of the plum? Alas, that they...