Transcendence In Black

The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the power of God was moving over the water. Then God commanded “Let there be light” –and light appeared. God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from darkness, and he named the day “light” and the darkness “night”. (Genesis 1:1-5)
In the biblical account of creation, black preceded the creation of light. Even the big bang theory won’t prove the precedence of darkness wrong. This primordial colour in mythologies is related to fertility.In Black: The History of a Color, Pastoureau mentions that:
This originary black is also found in other mythologies, not only in Europe but also in Asia and Africa. It is often fertile and fecund, as the Egyptian

The relation of the black, as a medium for imaginative transcendence appears in the later works of Stevens where he talks extensively about the importance of the imaginative faculty. He considers the imagination as one reality on which we can depend. Blackness, a physical reality links us to the imaginative, becoming one with the imaginative, making the unreal appearing real. Wallace Stevens examines the merging of the reality with imagination in his poems “Another Weeping Woman” and “Valley Candle”.
Though the poem “Another Weeping Woman” addresses a woman who is grieving over the death of someone she loved, the poet uses this context to comment on the significance of imagination rather than consoling the weeping woman. For the poet she is just “another weeping woman” that he has encountered.
In the poem “black” (6) is used as an adjective for blooms. But the poet suggests that these blooms grow out of tears and breed “poison” (4). Thus “black” (6) suggests melancholy and thus gains a negative attribute. Even though it is considered poisonous and thereby evil, the black blossoms still suggest life and creativity. Thus here as well black defines the creative spirit. Darkness pertains in this poem as the poem “Domination of Black”.
In the last two stanzas of the poem “Another Weeping Woman “Wallace Stevens