Wallace Stevens: "Sunday Morning"

While reading "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens, I found myself reminded of funerals. Frequently the notion of death before beauty is brought up multiple times throughout the poem. Stevens seems to hint that death is apart of an eternal cycle. The seasons mimic this relationship as the Earth dies in the fall and comes back to life in the spring. He mentions the idea of paradise almost as a negative, since he sees the lack of change as imperfect. He concludes that death is needed in order to truly understand and appreciate beauty. This beauty is designed to be the final reality.
Conceptually, Steven's ideas seem to question Christianity. The fundamental christian belief of resurrection echoes the ideal of death before beauty, because Christ death on the cross was necessary for our salvation. However, unlike the seasons, Christ doesn't need to keep dying.