Swenson

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Swenson is an Americanized spelling of the Swedish "Svensson," the ninth most common last name in Sweden. In everyday application it is used to signify a common Swede, as in "He's a real Swenson." Literally it translates as "son of Sven," a common Nordic first name meaning "young man" or "young warrior."
Swenson appears in Stevens' poem "Lions in Sweden," which is a meditation on the inadequacy of old, static images and ideas to represent the immediacy and complexity of the modern experience. The speaker of the poem addresses "Swenson" saying "No more phrases," which suggests that this character has been espousing ideas that reaffirm a belief in "majestic images" after which the soul still "hankers after," beliefs the speaker of the poem argues against. Stevens may have chosen this particular name as his apostrophe because of the old-world associations with Sweden as a vanguard of highly-civilized ideals and neutrality, a place where worn-out images of heroism could still be said to thrive.