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1. From The First Two Tercets - What Has Become Clear? What Does The Rest Of The Poem Suggest?

The First Stanza Gives Us A Temporal Frame ('end Of Day') - Some Sibilance To Set A Calm Mood - And Lets Us Know That We Should Be Focusing On The Rabbit ('your Fur').Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.

2. If We Can Connect Our Own Experiences To The Poem - Then ....

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.The First Stanza Gives Us A Temporal Frame ('end Of Day') - Some Sibilance To Set A Calm Mood - And Lets Us Know That We Should Be Focusing On The Rabbit ('your Fur').Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.

3. Talk About Alliteration In The Next Section.

The First Stanza Gives Us A Temporal Frame ('end Of Day') - Some Sibilance To Set A Calm Mood - And Lets Us Know That We Should Be Focusing On The Rabbit ('your Fur').Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.

4. Talk About The First Stanza

5. What Was Interpretation For Stevens?

For Stevens - Interpretation Was Part Of Being Human.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

6. What Was Poetry For Stevens?

For Stevens - Poetry Was The 'supreme Fiction' - A Fiction He Could Write Himself Into Without Being Totally Condemning Of His Life Choices.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

7. What Did Stevens Himself Remark About The World After The Death Of God?

That In This World Of Disbelief - It Is The Poet's Task To Supply The Satisfaction Of Belief In Poetry.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

8. So - What Does The Interpretation Of The Rabbit Show?

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.This Interpretation Of The Rabbit Shows That Stevens Wants Us To Use Our Imaginations In Order To Better Understand Our Responses To The World Around Us. If We Understand That Being Peaceful Means Being The Rabbit - Then Stevens Has Achieved His Poetic Purpose.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

9. What Does Stevens' Quiet Life Seem To Be In Contrast With? What Lines Express This?

Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.His Quiet Life Seems To Be In Contrast With The Vitality Found In His Poems. 'to Be - In The Grass - In The Peacefullest Time' - As The Rabbit - Was For Stevens - To Be 'without That Monument Of Cat' - To Be Free From The Looming Everyday Burden Of His Boring Job Was Of The Most Enjoyment.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.

10. What First Strikes Us About The Poem? What Might This Cause Us To Believe? What In Fact Is Stevens More Concerned With?

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.The First Thing That Strikes Me About The Poem Is Its Simple Form And Meter. The Poem Is Made Up Of Eight Simple Tercets - And Has No Regular Or Irregular Meter. This Might At First Cause One To Believe That Stevens Is A Simple Poet. However - Stevens Was More Interested In How Language Could Form Meaning And Was Not Too Fussed About Form.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

11. Talk About The Title Of The Poem

Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.The Title Of The Poem Introduces Us To An Addressee: The Rabbit.

12. What Does 'a Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts' Invite Us To Do?

From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.To Ponder The Everyday - But In A State Of Perplexed Wonderment At Its Complexities And Limitations.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

13. What Else Does This Inversion Cause Us To Question?

14. What Type Of Poet Was Stevens? So - What Would He Urge Us To Do When Reading His Poetry?

From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Was A Subjectivist Poet - And Thus Would Urge Us To Use Our Imaginations When Reading His Poetry In Order To Illuminate It.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.

15. What Techniques Does Stevens Use To Allow Readers To Insert Their Own Experiences Onto The Images?

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.Stevens Uses Caesura. These Pauses Allow Readers To Stop - Think - And Thus Insert Themselves Into The Poem And The Images They See. 'to Be - In The Grass - In The Peacefullest Time'. Us Readers Also See Ourselves Here - And Imagine Where We Are Most Peaceful (And It Certainly Isn't At This Desk...)

16. How Does The Fourth Tercet Present This Fascination With The Death Of God?

From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.'to Feel That The Light Is A Rabbit-light / In Which Everything Is Meant For You'. This Ralph Waldo Emmerson-esque 'for You' Shows That - In A World Of Disbelief - Perhaps Stevens Was Trying To Show How The Self Can Ascend From The Body And Take On A Worldly Light - A Celebration Of Self In Nature.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

17. What Did Stevens Himself Remark About Poetry And Life?

18. Talk About The Second Stanza

Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.The Second Stanza Introduces Us To The 'cat' Who Is Probably A Domestic Image Of Stevens Own Life As A Lawyer At Hartford Accident And Indemnity Firm. He Worked There From 1916 Up Until His Retirement - As His Father Forced Him To Become A Lawyer Because He Did Not Approve Of His Writing As A Career Path. The Cat Is In Direct Contrast To The Peacefulness That The Rabbit Experiences - And The Second Line Of The Tercet Confirms This: The Sounds Bound The Image Of The Cat Together In Monotonous - Boring - Monosyllabic Tone. Thus - The Cat Mirrors The Everyday Job That Stevens Must Endure - While The Rabbit Is The Embodiment Of His Peaceful - Serene Home Life.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.

19. Talk About Self In The Next Stanza.

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.We Are A 'self That Touches All Corners' - To Be Fully Conscious Of Yourself In The World - But Then We Have A Self That Touches 'all Four Corners Of Night' - Are We Limited Or Boundless?Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.

20. What Does Our Interpretation Depend Upon For Stevens? Explain Using An Example From 'notes Towards A Supreme Fiction'. What Does This Oscillation Between The Image Symbol And The Signified Suggest?

Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.For Stevens - Our Interpretation Depends Upon Our Imagination. In 'notes Towards And Supreme Fiction' - His Image Of The Sun Is Best In Describing This. We Can Best See The Sun In Our 'idea Of It' Because Obviously We Cannot See It With The Naked Eye. This Presents The Contradiction Of Life: Reality Is Our Perception Of It. So Why Not Use Our Imagination - If That Is All We Are Really Using Anyway?From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.

21. What Kind Of Writer Was Stevens Also? Explain.

22. What Was Stevens Particularly Fascinated By? What Did He Say About It?

23. What Did Stevens Once Remark?

Stevens Remarks - 'i Dislike Niggling - And Prefer Letting Myself Go'. The Form And Meter Of The Poem Reflect Exactly This. Stevens Wants Us To Read Is Poems Like The Easy - Everyday - Instead Of Being Caught Up And Fumbling Around The Form. There Is Thus Something Liberating About The Simplicity Of His Lines.He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.

24. Upon Reflection Of Stevens' _ We .... ?

He Uses Breathy 'h' Sounds Either To Ascend The Reader Or To Remind Us That One Day We Will Be Permanently Humped Up By Mounds Of Soil In The Grave.Upon Reflection Of Stevens' Imagism - Tone - And Musicality - We See That Stevens Is A Subtle Yet Striking American Poet - Who Casts Spells Of Linguistic Wonder On The Otherwise Mundane.Stevens Images Connect To The Referent.From The First Two Tercets - It Becomes Clear That The Rabbit Versus Cat Image Is A Reflection Of Stevens' Own Life: Poetry Versus Work. The Rest Of The Poem Seems To Suggest That The Reader Can Also Project Their Own Feelings And Experiences Onto The Images That Stevens Provides.

25. What Else Does This Suggest?

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