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Buttel remarks, "One would not expect such lyrical delicacy from the Imagist use of the spittle of cows."Buttel, p. 227 Its finding beauty in seemingly ordinary or earthy physical details puts him in mind of Whitman's "Song of Myself" and the line from its thirty-first canto, "And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,". Stevens's concern about the sound of the poem is evident here, as in The Comedian As The Letter C , where, among other things, he was exploring the different effects of the letter "c" in English. Here he invokes nonsense lines, suggesting the Call-and-response of mating birds, to achieve the desired effect. One reason why Stevens might flout Victorian poetic conventions about treatment of spring is suggested by Bates, one of whose themes is the importance of appreciating Stevens the American burgher. He relates an anecdote about Stevens writing to William Carlos Williams , quoting Stevens about the pleasures of a season in Nashville, where he was then staying.
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