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Negation is a poem from Wallace Stevens’s first bookof poetry Harmonium. Itwas first published in 1918 so it is in the publicdomain.This poem was Section VII of the poem—sequence Lettres d’un Soldat(1918). It was extracted as Negation for inclusion in the secondedition of Harmonium. It may reflect Stevens’s reading of Thus Spake Zarathustra according to Bates.