Omega

Omega is the last letter in the Greek alphabet and can be found in Wallace Stevens' poem "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950), beginning with the following lines:
Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. (vi, 1-3)
Omega is most commonly known in the Christian faith as referenced in the Book of Revelation, along with the first letter of the Greek alphabet, alpha. Together, alpha and omega represent both God and Christ as the ultimate reality. In "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," Stevens separates the Greeks letters, united as "[c]ustodians of the glory of the scene, / The immaculate interpreters of life" (vi, 14-15), into "[t]he eye's plain version of a thing apart" (i, 1). As a result, the reader is reminded that reality can be conveyed through a poem which represents "simple seeing, without reflection" (ix, 11), rather than through the reflection of any perceived reality found in "the hierophant Omega" (vi, 2), depicted within the poem as men clothed in the "antic symbols" (vii, 9) of Christianity. [1]
*"I am Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (Rev. 1.8).
*I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely" (Rev. 21.6).
*Jesus Christ: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last" (Rev. 22.13).
==Notes==
1. Stevens in Kermode and Richardson 400.
==References==
The Bible. Print. King James Vers.
Stevens, Wallace. "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven." Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose.      
Ed.Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson.New York: Library of America, 1997. 397-417. Print.