Blue

The color blue, often used to symbolically represent various moods and tones. In Stevens’s poetry, the color blue takes on added meaning. Thomas Jensen Hines connects blue as the color of the imagination. Michael Ferber explains the many literary connections to the color blue, but of special note is his reference to Stephen Mallarme’s use of “azur for the pure ideal for which his souls sighs [. . .] but it is a ‘cruel ideal’ for its ‘serene irony,’ its inaccessibility except by glimpses to the tormented poet who tries to apprehend it” (n.p.).
==References in Stevens's Poetry==
Wallace Stevens uses the word “blue” in multiple works:
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Cy Est Poutraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
The Comedian as the Letter C
O, Florida, Venereal Soil
The Apostrophe to Vincentine 
Of the Surface of Things
Anecdote of the Prince of Peacooks
Banal Sojourn
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
Sunday Morning
Six Significant Landscapes
Two Figures in Dense Violet Night
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Sea Surface Full of Clouds
New England Verses
The Public Square
In the Clear Season of Grapes
Sailing After Lunch
Snow and Stars
The Sun This March
Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery
A Fish-Scale Sunrise
The Man with the Blue Guitar
Parochial Theme
Study of Two Pears
Idiom of the Hero
The Man on the Dump
On the Road Home
The Latest Freed Man
Connoisseur of Chaos
The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air
Poem Written at Morning
Arcades of Philadelphia the Past
Cuisine Bourgeoise
Bouquet of Belle Savoir
Landscape with Boat
Variations on a Summer Day
Poem with Rhythms
Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers
Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun
Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas
Montrachet-le-Jardin
The News and the Weather
Jumbo
Examination of the Hero in a Time of War
The Motive for Metaphor
Dutch Graves in Bucks County
So-and-Sp Reclining on Her Couch
Chocorua to Its Neighbor
Repetitions of a Young Captain
Esthetique du Mal
The Pure Good of Theory
Debris of Life and Mind
Description without Place
Two Tales of Liadoff
Two Versions of the Same Poem
Continual Conversation with a Silent Man
Human Arrangement
Attempt to Discover Life
A Lot of People Bathing in a Stream
Credences of Summer
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, It Must Be Abstract
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, It Must Give Pleasure
The Auroras of Autumn
Page from a Tale
Large Red Man Reading
The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract
Celle Qui Fut Heaulmiette
A Primitive Like an Orb
The Bouquet
What We See is What We Think
Study of Images I
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
Things of August
Madame La Fleurie
The Illustrations That the World Is What You Make of It
Carnet de Voyage
“Eight Significant Landscapes”
Primordia
Architecture
From the Journal of Crispin
Mandolin and Liqueurs
Annual Gaiety
Secret Man
Agenda
Owl’s Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue
Owl’s Clover, Mr. Burnshaw and the Statue
Owl’s Clover, A Duck for Dinner
Owl’s Clover, Sombre Figuration
Life on a Battleship
From “Five Grotesque Pieces”
==References:==
*Ferber, Michael. “Blue.” A Dictionary of Literary Symbols. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Google Books. Web. 
*Hines, Thomas Jensen. The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens: Phenomenological Parallels with Husserl and Heidegger. Cranbury: Associated UP, 1976. Google Books. Web.