Cow
Stevenson, best known for tales of murder and madness, turns unexpectedly gentle in this whimsically absurd celebration of bovine simplicity. The poem treats the ordinary cow with supreme literary dignity, narrator delivering deadpan observations about the creature's two ends with the gravity of a philosopher. It's the kind of verse that makes you smile at its gentle absurdity, a brief vacation from the author's darker preoccupations. The rhythm bounces along, making it perfect for reading aloud to children or quietly savoring alone. Here is Stevenson the playful uncle, not Stevenson the haunted Victorian soul. For readers who know him only through Jekyll and Hyde, this poem reveals another dimension: a man who could find wonder in a pasture animal and make a reader laugh at the simple truth that one end of a cow is milk and the other is grass.
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