This four-page undergraduate paper examines the poem, "The Idea of Order at Key West" by Wallace Stevens. The author explains that in determining the speaker's meaning, and in identifying how the experience of overhearing a song changed how the speaker perceived the boundary between the sea and the sky, it is evident that upon hearing the woman's voice raised in song, the speaker was awakened to the symbolic audio and visual parallels between music and nature, which enabled him to see the boundary between the sea and the sky from an entirely new point of view.
