For some critics, these attempts, addressing the Romantic construction of imagination, are so encumbered by the metaphysics of the subject embedded in Romanticism that they are, ultimately, articulating a subjectivist, even solipsistic, poetics.

• 对一些研究现代诗的批评学者而言，浪漫主义深植于主体形上论，而史蒂文斯重回浪漫主义所建构的想像力观念，终究难以跳脱主体中心主义，甚至是唯我论的藩篱。