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The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens is a poetry collection, featuring the challenging and celebrated titular poem, "The Auroras of Autumn." The poem begins with vivid imagery of the Northern Lights as a dynamic serpent contrasted against a shapeless landscape, exploring themes of transformation and memory. Moving through deserted cabins, evolving seasons, familial memories, and the theater of life, it contemplates imagination, innocence, and the cyclical nature of human existence.