Peter the Voyant

Peter the Voyant appears in Wallace Stevens' poem "Questions Are Remarks," in The Auroras of Autumn (1950). He clearly is defined in the lines "[e]xcept that the grandson sees it as it is, / Peter the Voyant, who says 'Mother, what is that'--" (6-7). [1] From the poem, the reader learns that Peter Reed Hanchak is "the expert aetat. 2" and that "[h]is question is complete because it contains / His utmost statement" (11, 13-14). [1] Stevens' wonder at his grandson's close connection to the natural world and his ability to ask the "utmost" (14) questions is celebrated in this poem that is a tribute to the innocence and clarity of childhood unencumbered by "adult enfantillages" (3). [1]
==Notes==
1. Stevens in Kermode and Richardson 394-5.
==References==
Stevens, Wallace. "Questions Are Remarks."  Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose. Ed. Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson. New York: Library of America, 1997. 394-5. Print.