ABSTRACT
The American poet, Wallace Stevens (1955), by daylight an insurance adjuster and by evening a poet, merged science and art in his poetry. In 'Study of Two Pears', quoted above, he forces the reader to look again and again at two pears and to see, perhaps for the first time, the contrapuntal of the stretch between the familiar and the strange. Most of us have seen two pears; many of us have seen them in their 'real' form, as well as in animated shapes in children's alphabet books, and in artistic reproduction in still life, film, or computer image.
