The world of Harmonium is the world of Stevens.. The poetic process reduplicates the growth of the self, so that in creating a poem, he is re-creating or composing himself. This is a visibility of thought, a new imagining. The poetry of Harmonium is an external poetry which looks outward for the most part and which is heavy with direct appeal to the senses. Even more remarkable, perhaps, is Stevens' ability to appeal to the kinesthetic sense, to make a reader feel heat and cold and rapid movement and delight in dance-like grace. The ability to evoke a sense of moment, is, however, more significant in terms of Stevens' ability to create an adequate verbal symbol for the experience of life. The most pervasive metaphysical problem in Harmonium is one that emerges quite naturally from Stevens' concern with the inter-workings of the imagination and reality..” Harmonium was to its time just what a new poetry should be, a refreshingly personal idiom not easily assessed. His theory is firm and axiomatic. The shifting relation of imagination and reality is further complicated by an ever-changing reality and the fluctuating temperament and intensity of the individual imagination: a formula more successfully demonstrated in the proper lyrical setting. Harmonium's exuberance and its comedy are not unrelated to this crisis of the limited self in an alien world may be taken as a truth if not a truism