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: The piece concludes with a shift toward the physical world, celebrating a "race completely physical in a physical world" where the "green corn gleams" and abstract metaphysical worries are replaced by the immediate, "rotund emotions" of living. Influence and Connections

: A central thesis is that "the death of Satan was a tragedy for the imagination". Without a personified devil or a divine plan to explain suffering, the human imagination must take on the burden of giving pain a "tenable attitude". L’esthétique du mal

: Stevens uses this phrase to describe the aspects of evil that speech cannot fully propound or explain. He argues that although we cannot logically solve the problem of evil, the "gaiety of language" and the creation of "sensuous worlds" allow us to live within it. : The piece concludes with a shift toward