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August 2, 2014

August 2, 1955

According to Harold Bloom, Wallace Stevens, in the poem "A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts," records a "major battle in the war between being-without-consciousness and consciousness-without-being." Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 to August 2, 1955) wrote in this text:

The difficulty to think at the end of the day,
When the shapeless shadow covers the sun
And nothing is left except light on your fur-


There was the cat slopping its milk all day,
Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk
And August the most peaceful month.

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I'll leave this to the critic: "There is no critical agreement on the "Rabbit" poem"

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