A Pear is a Pear.

Read Adagia and find a couple of adages that you like.

“The ceaseless mutation of forms composed of indestructible substances is the single greatest thought that mankind has ever had.”

...or is it...

“This double experience of mutation and recurrence, an experience at once sentimental and scientific, soon brought with it a very great thought, perhaps the greatest thought that mankind has ever hit upon, and which was the chief inspiration of Lucretius. It is that all we observe about us, and ourselves also, may be so many passing forms of a permanent substance.”

We say “carpe diem” because we see the horrifying brevity of life that poets have taught us to see, that of mayflies. One generation comes and another generation goes but the earth abides forever. The word that shows up as vanity should really be something to the effect of “breath”. If things are here and then gone, what are we going to do once they are?

There is an Indian philosophy that everything is made of the same substances, in fact, that all things are one, even the flies that buzz around our heads. A gadfly is someone who asks questions that aren't pertinent, who can interrupt progress by bothering these issues relentlessly. Looking for a cure for that buzzing? Try a poem.

Sonnets are cures in an almost medicinal sense. They are very strict; fourteen lines in either three quatrains and a couplet, or an octet and a sextet. The emphasis always has to be on the right syllable, and the right number of syllables must be on each line. You only get fourteen lines to do what you want to do; you need this form of order, or else the cure just won't work. Keep in mind that everything is used to speak about poetry.

Cutting down the tree that connected us to heaven helps us to see the world in a way that we have never seen it before. Get in touch with all the things that are alienated to you. If you are in touch with everything, there will be nothing that you do not enjoy, because they are all a part of you. Everything is wonderful.

We should probably get rid of the way that we want to see things, and see things as they actually are. "The pears are not seen as the observer wills." Stevens, in this phase, is trying to get us to strip away all of these distractions that make us see things in relation to another.

Read landscape with boat, and then go out and see something as it really is.